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What Is China's Connection to America's Fentanyl Epidemic?

The prolonged opioid epidemic has become the worst drug crisis in the history of the United States. Its modern era has been defined by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is cheap to make and deadly to consume, even in small doses. China is the primary manufacturer of the ingredients to make fentanyl, though Mexican cartels smuggle most of the fentanyl that reaches the United States across the southern U.S. border. While China has made some efforts to restrict fentanyl production, more Americans died from drug overdoses in 2022 than ever before, and the majority of those overdoses involved fentanyl or a similar drug. Meanwhile, geopolitical competition between the United States and China has continued to heat up, and experts are pessimistic that the two countries will be able to cooperate on the fentanyl issue. This episode was originally released by Why It Matters on October 27, 2023. Find us America’s Fentanyl Epidemic: The China Connection - https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/americas... Why It Matters - https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/why-it-m... Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/39tmKmi Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3ACtkTq Google Podcasts - https://bit.ly/2W5Ef94 Host Gabrielle Sierra Podcast Host and Senior Producer Episode Guests Tom Bollyky ​​Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development and Director of the Global Health Program Zongyuan Zoe Liu Maurice R. Greenberg Fellow for China Studies Related Episodes The Cost of the U.S. Arms Trade - https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/cost-us-... Mexico - https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/mexico Subscribe to our channel:    / playlist   The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher. Visit the CFR website: http://www.cfr.org Follow CFR on Twitter:   / cfr_org   Follow CFR on Facebook:   / councilonfor.  .