This week, President Trump spoke to China’s President Xi Jinping about his desire to impose an additional ten percent tariff on Chinese goods until the country makes a more concerted effort to curb the illegal fentanyl that is continually trafficked into the United States.
By now, everyone knows that China is flooding our country with fentanyl. An investigation by the Select Committee on the CCP concluded that the People’s Republic “subsidizes the manufacturing and export of illicit fentanyl materials,” “[h]olds ownership interest in several PRC companies tied to drug trafficking,” and (most notably) “[c]ensors content about domestic drug sales, but leaves export-focused narcotics content untouched.” They’re smart enough to keep fentanyl away from their own people but have no problem sending it across our borders to poison the blood of…
