Bow down faggots, your President solved the fentanyl crisis. I expect you all to respond with a 'Thank You' in this thread to the best President we've had lately. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/13/fentanyl-crisis-chinaDid breakthrough in US fentanyl crisis start in China?US overdose deaths have plunged, and some experts point to moves to restrict Chinese precursorsAs Donald Trump travels to Beijing this week, fentanyl – and China’s role in its supply chain – remains an enduring point of acrimony in bilateral relations.At a UN meeting in March, the US again accused China of failing to stop its chemical industry selling the precursors required to make the potent synthetic opioid, while China suggested the US was shifting the blame for its domestic drug problem.Yet there are growing signs that the US fentanyl crisis has turned a corner – and some experts believe that interventions made in China have played a key role.“There was a supply shock: the purity of fentanyl fell,” said Keith Humphreys, a professor at Stanford University. “The question is why was there a supply shock. And most indicators point to China.”On returning to the White House, Trump made fentanyl a foreign policy priority and quickly designated the criminal groups trafficking it as foreign terrorist organisations while slapping tariffs on countries involved in its supply chain – including China, the main source of fentanyl precursors, many of which are basic chemicals with legitimate uses.But by the summer of 2023 – during the Biden administration – overdose deaths at the national level had already begun to fall. By November 2025, they were down by more than a third.Investigators are still trying to unpick the factors behind the fall, but one theory put forward by Humphreys and his co-authors in a recent study published by Science links it to interventions in China that may have caused a long-lasting disruption to the fentanyl supply chain.
The authors point to a dramatic fall in the purity of fentanyl being seized by US law enforcement from May 2023 to the end of 2024 – the latest data publicly available – which correlates with the fall in overdose deaths.This handout picture posted on the X account (formerly known as Twitter) of Omar Garcia Harfuch, Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection of Mexico, on October 23, 2025, shows alleged Chinese fentanyl kingpin Zhi Dong Zhang, known by the alias "Brother Wang," escorted by INTERPOL officers in Mexico City. Zhi Dong Zhang, who escaped house arrest in Mexico last July, was transferred to US authorities with the mediation of the government and the Attorney General's Office, Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch reportedThere was a similar fall in purity in Canada, which is a distinct fentanyl market, suggesting the cause might originate where they both source their precursors: China.The idea that the flow of precursors was disrupted is supported by reports from 2024 of cartel cooks struggling to source them, while new and strange adulterants appeared in the fentanyl on US streets, suggesting those cooks might have been experimenting with alternative synthesis pathways.But there are big caveats. For one, it is difficult to pinpoint which of China’s self-reported interventions might be responsible. And then it’s also unclear that the fall in purity is what actually caused the fall in overdose deaths.Nonetheless, Liu Pengyu, the spokesperson at the Chinese embassy in Washington, said in a statement that China was glad to see fentanyl overdose deaths had decreased and noted that the US government’s 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment “implies that Chinese government efforts have made [a] contribution to addressing the fentanyl problem in the US”.
Henrietta Levin, who was director for China on Biden’s National Security Council, said her former colleagues saw the Science paper as showing that their pressure on China had worked. “I think China could have done more,” said Levin. “But what they did do mattered.”Further supply side interventions are likely to be on the agenda at this week’s summit.Ideally, said Levin, these would include China changing laws to make it easier to prosecute drug trafficking, and more action from its commerce ministry to really control the behaviour of chemical companies.“A lot of this comes down to enforcement,” said Levin. “China announced export controls [on various fentanyl precursors], and that’s important. But Chinese chemical companies are gauging how serious the government is about actually enforcing those restrictions.”Yet history shows that, so long as the demand is there, supply shocks are always temporary – and can have unpredictable effects, even making things worse.Indeed, it was only after China put a blanket ban on fentanyl in 2019 that the supply chain evolved to loop Mexico’s cartels in, who began to import precursors from China and then traffic the finished product over the US-Mexico border, almost entirely replacing their previous trade in heroin.“There’s a kind of myopia here,” said Nabarun Dasgupta, director of the University of North Carolina’s opioid data lab. “That time, the geopolitics of it backfired.”
So what we can take away from this is that the CIA has found a better revenue stream and moved on. Hooray for now, but whatever that is will be worse.
It is the strangest coincidence that crises arise when Trump is president, and he tries to solve them to look presidential.Covid? Trump was president when it became a crisis. Crashed the economy. Then Operation Warp Speed led to the miracle vax.Gas? All of a sudden gas prices doubled recently under Trump and nobody seems to know why. But he's working hard to fix it.Hantavirus? Appeared out of nowhere under Trump, but his crack team is working on a vax right now under RFK Jr.Trump is a problem solver.
>>1514743Do you remember the crisis of Ukraine being invaded while Joe Biden was president?The crisis of the Afghanistan Withdrawal and people clinging to the sides of planes to escape?Do you remember when Palestine attacked Israel on October 7th, and started the Israel-Palestine war? Joe Biden was president too
>>1514745>>The crisis of the Afghanistan Withdrawal and people clinging to the sides of planes to escape?I remember Trump siding with the Taliban and giving them Afghanistan, and Biden having to deal with the tail end of that. Imagine being locked into a deal that a criminal president made to hand over a country that the US has bled over for the last twenty years to terrorists. MAGA is just dumb enough to decide that the Taliban were bad again and that it was Bidens fault for honoring the deal Trump set up.
>>1514746>MAGA is just dumb enough to decide that the Taliban were bad again and that it was Bidens fault for honoring the deal Trump set up.Trump negotiated a ceasefire with the Taliban under the condition that America withdraw from the country by a specific date. The Taliban agreed and they stopped killing American soldiers.Biden entered office and immediately decided to push back the pullout to September 11th from May 1st, a full four fucking months later, breaking the deal entirely. The Taliban responded by sweeping through the region and killing every single American and US interpreter they could find.We pulled out so fast and so abruptly that we didn't even tell the watch commanders we were leaving. We left dogs in their kennels. We left AMERICAN CITIZENS on the ground. Women and children were rushing to the tarmac trying to escape the encroaching hordes of angry sand niggers, literally throwing their babies over barbed wire trying to escape so that they wouldn't be sexually enslaved. Kill yourself you lying evil fuck.
1514748>Facebook boomers fall for this, so you have to fall for it too!
>>1514748Says the lying evil fuck that continues to suck off the child rapist, Trump. Trump set up an extremely poor deal because he's massively incompetent, and Biden had to deal with it. The amount of US troops in Afghanistan was reduced to only 2500 when Biden took office. Trump also released like 5000 Taliban troops before this. There was no way to exit the country cleanly with those numbers, especially when retard Trump set a hard exit date. He extended it to try to buy more time, but there wasn't much they could do. Sending more troops there would have caused a media chimp out. Therefore a bunch of people got fucked over. Did Biden handle it well? No, but he was screwed with such a bad deal and was purposely set up to fail by Trump.
>>1514746In March 2021, news reports stated that President Biden was potentially considering keeping US forces in Afghanistan until November 2021. However, on 14 April 2021, Biden announced his intention to withdraw all regular US troops by 11 September 2021, the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks and four months after the 1 May deadline negotiated prior.https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/article/2573268/biden-announces-full-us-troop-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-by-sept-11/Joe Biden took ownership of the Afghanistan withdrawal when he broke the original withdrawal date agreement so he could get a press opportunity about ending the presence of the United States in Afghanistan 20 years after 9/11.If he had followed the negotiated timeline and the deal collapsed according to Trump's plan, Trump would deserve the blame. But Biden took ownership, and tried to take the credit for ending the US's involvement in Afghanistan
>>1514752I'm pretty sure Trump releasing all the Taliban prisoners who attacked American Airbases makes it Trumps problem
>>1514752If it was that rushed and fucked with an entire four extra months to set up, what do you think it would have looked like if we had left by May?
>>1514760You mean what if he complied with the negotiated agreement instead of unilaterally changing the rules of the negotiated agreement?Well if he did what the US agreed to instead of fucking it up, we would have had Abrams air force base, and there wouldn't have been that suicide bombing which killed 182 and injured 150https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Kabul_airport_attack
>>1514762So you think it would have been less rushed and fucked up with four less months of prep?
>>1514763After WW2 ended, America was occupying Japan.They negotiated with Japan to end the withdrawal. The occupation of Japan officially ended on April 28, 1952. This was negotiated in the Treaty of San Francisco, which was signed September 8, 1951. If the president unilaterally extended the occupation of Japan by an additional 4 month in 1952, I think that would have been disastrous, even with "four less months of prep". Because it would undermine trust from the very beginning. It would make the withdrawal 4 months later more hostile, because it would cause additional resentment towards the lying foreigners who did not stay true to their word and to their signed agreements
It is a complete waste of time trying to argue with liberals about something that happened under Biden's watch.
>lying foreignersBut enough about the OP..And the post between this and >>1514765? If you think your 'opinions' are so correct, why need to 'argue' with liberals in the first place, least of all need to be in /news/? The fact you need to 'argue' with liberals here proves you're insecure, thus all your opinions are wrong.
>>1514768>If you think your 'opinions' are so correct, why need to 'argue' with liberals in the first place, least of all need to be in /news/?Because it's fun?And I like poking the village idiots with sticks.
>>15147390Pie, I tell my nationalized pharmaceutical manufacturers to cut back on fentanyl shipments to USA. tRump already looks bad enough, and I don't want to have him removed from power, because he's too good for business.
>>1514766You people have no idea what happened while Joe Biden was president because you were too busy gooning to Hunter's dick pics.
>>1514768Right-wing conservatives have aggrievement, take that away from them, and they have nothing.https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/1259jro/why_are_conservatives_republicans_always_so/
>>1514771You have to be over 18 to use this site
