The Chinese are the source of most of the illegal fentanyl in the U.S. That drug is more dangerous than heroin, and harder to detect. It is producing more deaths than heroin too. I don't know why the Chinese would encourage an epidemic of drug use that is not well controlled and traceable back to them. They invite trouble on two fronts.
First, drugs are dangerous when they get traction in any country. Making drugs in your country is going to create an opportunity for the same kinds of drug kingpins to make a profit closer to home. Bloomberg reported exactly that. Chinese arrests are up and concerns mounts on this dangerous drug, but what drives the production is profitability of this special drug. Much better than heroin, it is cheaper to produce and distribute. For much of the time it was being imported, it was not illegal.
Second, illegal drugs make for corruption. Local officials need to cooperate with manufacturing, packaging and distribution. In this case, delivery seems to be by the US Postal Service and US transport companies operating in China. This almost sounds crazy. The drug cartels in Mexico must be envious of such an arrangement.
The Chinese are arrogant about their ability to control and monitor their population because they are the best in the world at censorship. They believe they can control this production by monitoring the raw materials and communications between the customers and the distributors of goods. I have watched some drug dealers over the years and wonder if the Chinese are as good as they think they are. The dark web can spring off a branch or two of pretty good sales and distribution companies that are harder to detect in the US. It seems like the Chinese could prevent these sites from springing up by watching for them. Maybe they can. One thing about criminals, they spend the same amount of time at their jobs as we do at ours. They are good at what they do. Let's see if the Chinese can do anything about this epidemic of their own creation.
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