Towards the end of last year, The Biden administration launched what it claimed was a major crackdown on the fentanyl supply that enters this country from China. As the Associated Press reported, “in one of the biggest actions the administration has taken against fentanyl trafficking, the U.S. on Tuesday announced a series of indictments and sanctions against 14 people and 14 firms across China and Canada related to the import of the drug to the United States.”
One of the targets of these sanctions was a company based in China that provides pill dies for counterfeit oxycodone. A spokesman for the Treasury Department called the sanctions “the latest step in the rapid scaling up of our work targeting the financial flows that power the global illicit drug trade.” So they made a big show of the whole process, as a way of convincing people that they’re doing something about…
