Will Trump’s trade war end America’s fentanyl crisis?
Simply severing the supply chain is not sufficient, the challenge is also to curb the demand for the drug. Read more at ...
What the Opium Wars can tell us about China, the U.S. and fentanyl
China was initially reluctant to take measures to help the U.S. deal with its addiction crisis, and the threat of tariffs ...
Tehran Times12d
Tariffing China won’t solve US’ fentanyl problem
By citing fentanyl as the reason, the US government announced in late February that it would hit goods from China with a new ...
Cfr.org2d
Fentanyl and the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
Fentanyl and other opioids have fueled the worst drug crisis ... produced in China and Mexico and then smuggled into the United States. Opioids, a class of drugs derived from the opium poppy ...
Canada and China say the fentanyl crisis is only a 'pretext' for Trump's new tariffs
Canadian and Chinese officials say they were already helping reduce fentanyl smuggling. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said ...
China Daily10dOpinion
Tariffs are not the cure for the US Fentanyl crisis
Yet the US persistently overlooks China's contributions. Using fentanyl as justification, it hiked tariffs on China twice in ...
The Financial Times9d
China’s obesity crisis is big business
China’s obesity crisis is a sizeable profit opportunity. More than half of Chinese adults are overweight or obese — a figure expected to hit two-thirds by 2030. That is nearly 900mn people ...