China Deflects Blame for Opioid Crisis as Trump Visit Nears<br />ews conference to announce the hunt for these fugitives." China has no extradition treaty with the United States, and Mr. Wei said a decision on extraditing the two men would be dependent on evidence<br />that the Americans could provide or the Chinese could unearth. that China regrets that the U.S. chose to unilaterally hold a n<br />Mr. Wei criticized the Department of Justice’s public announcement last month of indictments against two "major Chinese drug traffickers — a case<br />that both Beijing and Washington were working on." Last week the department highlighted the indictments against Yan Xiaobing and Jian Zhang, who are living in China, as a sign that the United States was making its fight against opioids a global one.<br />Saying that fentanyl abuse does not exist in China, Mr. Wei said the authorities had nonetheless responded forcefully to the crisis<br />in the United States by banning more fentanyl analogues than those on a United Nations drug body’s list of controlled substances.<br />Mr. Trump has pointed to China as the drug’s main source, saying it is "either shipped into the United States or smuggled across<br />the southern border by drug traffickers." Last year in the United States, about 64,000 people died of drug overdoses.<br />U.S.-China Economic said that China is the main supplier of fentanyl to the United States, Mexico, and Canada,<br />Drug Enforcement Administration said that Once China controls a substance, it has a dramatic effect on the United States in terms of lives saved,
