China Needs to Do More to Stem Fentanyl Crisis, US Says
A worker tests a drug sample for fentanyl.
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The Biden administration called on China to do more to combat the spread of illicit synthetic drugs, weeks after Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Beijing and pressed leaders to help confront the fentanyl crisis.
China “needs to do more as a global partner to disrupt illicit synthetic-drug supply chains,” Todd Robinson, the assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement, told reporters Thursday. He said the US has no sign yet that China plans to join a new US-led coalition of 84 countries that will work to disrupt the spread of fentanyl and other drugs.