Is Killing 100,000 Americans an Act of War?
By Philip Carl Salzman 4:09 PM on October 27, 2022
https://pjmedia.com/columns/philip-carl-...of-war-n1640621

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2021, 100,306 Americans died of drug overdoses and poisonings. In 2022, according to the CDC, 109,000 Americans died of drug overdoses and poisonings.

The drugs killing Americans are sourced from many countries. South America is prominent for some types, while Asia is the main source of others, but most make their way to America through Mexico, smuggled by the Mexican cartels across the southern border. The most recent major development is the massive flow of the highly dangerous fentanyl, made into consumable form by Mexican cartels from ingredients provided by the People’s Republic of China (see also here and here), although China denies it has anything to do with the fentanyl crisis in the U.S.

The U.S. government has acted against China because of its export of fentanyl ingredients. In 2021, President Biden imposed sanctions on four Chinese pill makers. According to Breitbart:

Also subjected to Treasury Department action was an individual named Chuen Fat Yip, described as “one of the largest, if not the largest, producers of anabolic steroids in the world.” Yip, a 68-year-old resident of the now-infamous city of Wuhan, allegedly shipped millions of dollars worth of fentanyl ingredients from Shanghai and Hong Kong to illicit customers worldwide… Federal drug charges were filed against Yip on Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Northern District of Texas, which seized an estimated $2.3 million in cryptocurrency from Yip’s digital wallet in November.

China claims to have outlawed the production and export of fentanyl ingredients, but these claims have been viewed skeptically, as it is believed that nothing goes on in the PRC that is not known by the authorities and does not have at least the tacit agreement of the Communist government. Furthermore, the PRC argues that the responsibility for drug addition and death lies right at home in the U.S. According to the Chinese mouthpiece, Global Times:

It should be clarified that the US fentanyl abuse crisis does not originate from China, and is actually a social problem in the US. It is no secret that some American pharmaceutical companies put their own economic interests above public health by actively encouraging people to use prescription fentanyl a few years ago, leading to the quick spread of the fentanyl addiction.

The Global Times faulted the U.S. government for not formally regulating fentanyl as strictly as China and boasted that authoritarian Beijing could easily solve the drug crisis American democracy seems helpless against:-- excerpt, rest at link above --