Less than one hundred years ago this kind of "supply chain" leading to serious harm of significant numbers of the population would have been considered a cause for war! That is how serious this is!
"U.S. officials announced criminal charges Tuesday against eight Chinese companies and 12 of their executives accused of supplying precursor chemicals for the illegal manufacture of fentanyl, methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs. ...
The charges were the second major set of indictments the Biden administration has unsealed since June accusing companies in China with supplying Mexican drug cartels and fueling a U.S. overdose epidemic that is killing more than 100,000 Americans a year. Most of the deaths have been linked to fentanyl, the synthetic opioid 50 times as potent as heroin.
Undercover U.S. agents ordered the chemicals from online sellers in China who openly advertised their ability to skirt U.S. detection by using fake shipping labels and deceptive delivery procedures, U.S. officials said. ..."
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