China Will Crack Down on Fentanyl Sent to the US. Worse Drugs Could Fill the Vacuum.
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The U.S. already pressured China to ban fentanyl once. Supply grew exponentially afterwards.

President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed that China would crack down on the production and exporting of fentanyl and the precursor chemicals used to make it, according to media reports.

But while Biden is painting the agreement as a win that will “save lives”, drug policy experts told VICE News they’re skeptical the measure will curb the overdose crisis—and it may make the drug supply worse.

Biden and Xi met Wednesday in San Francisco, where both leaders were in town for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. According to the New York Times, China will go after the exporting of illicit fentanyl into the U.S. and the manufacturing of precursor chemicals, which are being used to make fentanyl and smuggle it into the country from Mexico.

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 year ago

      I was going to ask why Biden doing stupid things would make people vote for Trump, but then I remembered that the average voter is dumb enough to shoot themselves in the foot to spite their face.

      And yes, I’m aware that I’ve combined two sayings in a way that doesn’t make sense.

        • otp@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          1 year ago

          I know that not every vote in the US has equal power, and it sucks that that’s the case.

          But if you live somewhere that your vote would actually have an impact on the election (like in a swing state), then not voting Democrat is increasing the chances of a Republican victory.

          If you think Trump wouldn’t be pro-genocide, anti-union, pro-prohibition…then I could see where you’re coming from. But if Trump were president during the time those things were happening, would he really have done anything differently or more preferable?

            • otp@sh.itjust.works
              6·
              1 year ago

              Except they’re not equal. One is objectively causing more harm. He’d be doing the exact same bad things, and other additional bad things, too.

              If voting for the lesser of two evils is the one thing you could do to stop the greater of two evils, not voting means making it easier for the greater evil to win.

                • otp@sh.itjust.works
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  Your metaphor isn’t a good one.

                  There are millions of people voting for chicken nuggets and porkchops. Given the trajectory, tacos are not going to be on the menu.

                  You need to pick a poison, and if one poison is worse than the other, you need to pick the less bad one to help keep the worse one away.

                  Like choosing alcohol to keep fentanyl off the streets.