Original title: The Ministry of Public Security responds to the US imposing tariffs on China: The root cause of the US fentanyl crisis lies in itself
Today, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Security expressed strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to the US announcement that the US side would impose a 10% tariff on Chinese products imported from the US on the grounds of fentanyl and other issues.
A reporter asked that on February 1, Eastern Time, the United States announced an additional 10% tariff on Chinese products imported to the United States. What is China’s comment on this?
Answer: The US side used the fentanyl issue as an excuse to impose a 10% tariff on Chinese products imported from the US. China is strongly dissatisfied with this and firmly opposed it.
China is one of the countries with the strictest anti-drug policies and the most thoroughly implemented in the world. As a party to the three UN anti-drug conventions, China has always firmly fulfilled its international anti-drug obligations and actively carried out international anti-drug cooperation with countries around the world, including the United States. In the absence of large-scale abuse in its own country, China has taken the lead in formally managing fentanyl substances in 2019 at the request of the US, but the United States has not been permanently listed in the entire category. After the entire category was placed in charge, China did not receive any notice from the US that it seized such substances from China.
In recent years, China and the United States have carried out extensive practical cooperation in the field of drug control, and have made many visual progress in material management, intelligence exchange, case cooperation, online advertising cleaning, drug detection technology exchange, multilateral interaction, etc., and the results are obvious to all.
The root cause of the fentanyl crisis in the United States lies in itself. Reducing domestic drug demand and strengthening law enforcement cooperation are the fundamental solutions. Blindly passing the blame to other countries will not help truly solve the problem, and will seriously damage the cooperation and trust foundation in the field of drug control between China and the United States. China urges the US to correct its wrong practices, maintain a good situation in which Sino-US drug control cooperation is hard-won, and promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of Sino-US relations.
