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China cracked down on fentanyl manufacture in 2019. “90% in China” is now more like 3%.

• seanmcdirmid 4y ago
  Nope. The only thing that has changed since 2019 is that people in China are no longer mailing it directly to the USA anymore (China cracked down on that because America threatened to end preferential mailing rates from China to the USA). Beijing is no longer cooperating with US authorities on stopping fentanyl flow from China: https://www.wsj.com/articles/fentanyl-crisis-fed-by-flow-of-chinese-chemicals-to-mexican-cartels-11671722056 https://www.wsj.com/articles/fentanyl-crisis-fed-by-flow-of-... The chemicals are still making it to Mexico from China, that is still easy to track: https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/03/08/fentanyl-pipeline-mexico-china-pkg-culver-vpx.cnn https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/03/08/fentanyl-pipelin... https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/fentanly-drug-path-china-mexico-north-texas-dallas/ https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/fentanly-drug-path-chi... Etc... TLDR; China is still the source for the vast majority of fentanyl in the states (a lot of it is seized in Mexico in containers that come from china, though they get around this by just shipping a lot of it), and no one (including China) is really claiming otherwise since it is just too obvious ATM.