Admit your crisis and not distribute faults for fentanyl, you demand Beijin to Washington

Emir Olivares and Arturo Sánchez

La Jornada newspaper
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, p. 6

The China Embassy in Mexico urged the United States Government to take responsibility and admit as their own the problem of fentanyl consumption among its citizens, instead of blaming and slander To other countries for that crisis, among them to the Asian nation.

In social networks, Beijing’s diplomatic representation in our country responded to a post of February 6, in which his American pair accused: 90 percent of opioid deaths in the United States are due to the fentanyl that arrives through Mexico and Canada, and whose precursors come from China.

Given this, the Legation of the Asian country reversed: The fentanyl problem is a United States problem.

In his message, the representation of Beijing in Mexico emphasized that The US part must see and treat in a objective and rational way its own fentanyl problem, instead of slandering, defame and blames other countries.

He urged the United States Embassy To correct its erroneous practice, preserve the good situation of anti -drug cooperation between China and the United States, which has not been easy to achieve, and promote stable, healthy and sustainable development of bilateral relations.

Considered rhetoric The statements on the part of the US embassy – which for now has no ambassador after the departure of Democrat Ken Salazar – around the fentanyl and his attempt to hold others responsible for the serious problem of their consumption, which last year caused the death of almost 100 thousand Americans, according to official data.

We have taken note that recently, the United States Embassy in Mexico criticized in its X account that the precursors of the United States fentanyl come from China, which is blaming a foreign countryhe stressed.

The diplomatic legation argued that China is one of the nations with anti -drug policies more strict and more rigorously implemented In the world.

He affirmed that as part of the support to the United States in his fight against that crisis and the White House, in 2019 China announced the integral classification of the drugs of the Fentanyl group as controlled substances, being the first country in the world to do it officially.

He added that the Beijing government has undertaken wide anti -drug cooperation With Washington, which has achieved notable results.

Since Donald Trump assumed the presidency of the United States, the X account of his embassy in Mexico has increased his activity with messages and publications, particularly on irregular migration and fentanyl traffic.

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