China Knows How to Stop Fentanyl But Is ‘Perfectly Okay’ Letting It Flow to US: Krishnamoorthi by Ryan Morgan – US Politics News

As the United States deals with tens of thousands of fentanyl overdoses each year, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) is pointing to China’s comparative lack of fentanyl deaths as a sign that the Chinese government knows how to address the problem domestically but enables the potent opioid to keep flowing outside its borders.
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held a hearing on Tuesday to discuss the CCP’s apparent role in the global fentanyl trade and its deadly impacts.
Mr. Krishnamoorthi, the committee’s ranking member, presented a slide during the Tuesday hearing citing Chinese government figures that indicated China recorded zero fentanyl deaths in the year 2022. By comparison, Mr. Krishnamoorthi’s slide noted figures shared by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), indicating 76,000 fentanyl-related deaths occurred in the United States that same year….