Biden pressured to sanction China for role in US fentanyl crisis

FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is pushing the Biden medication to classify fentanyl arsenic a biologic and chemic weapon, and to authorisation China for its relation successful fueling the U.S. cause crisis.

"The Chinese Communist Party is the largest constabulary authorities successful the world. If they wanted to halt the travel of fentanyl from wrong their borderline to the U.S. and Mexican cause cartels, they could bash it overnight," Banks told Fox News Digital. "Instead, they are sending this deadly opioid to termination tens of thousands of subject and working-aged Americans each twelvemonth to destruct our communities and economy at levels lone seen by weapons of wide destruction. They indispensable beryllium held accountable."

His measure would amend the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991, which requires the president to enforce sanctions connected overseas entities that knowingly contributed to different country's banal oregon usage of chemic and biologic weapons.

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Rep. Jim Banks, left, is pushing the Biden medication to classify fentanyl arsenic a biologic and chemic weapon. (Getty Images)

It comes soon aft the House prime committee on China, of which Banks is simply a member, released a bombshell study accusing China of worsening the ongoing fentanyl situation successful the U.S. 

The committee recovered that China's Communist authorities offered subsidies to companies that manufacture fentanyl precursors and different synthetic drugs, arsenic agelong arsenic those products are being sold extracurricular of China.

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A bombshell House study accused Chinese President Xi Jinping of overseeing his government's subsidy programme for companies making fentanyl precursors. (Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)

The programme has been successful spot since 2018 and did not halt adjacent aft President Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping successful November 2023. In fact, the committee recovered that China accrued those subsidies portion successful talks with U.S. officials successful 2019 and 2020.

The complaint of cause overdose deaths successful the U.S. quadrupled from 2002 to 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Deaths were highest for adults aged 35-44 successful 2021 and 2022, the information shows.

U.S. authorities person grappled with fentanyl coming crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and different places, with deadly amounts being laced with different illicit recreational drugs.

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Bundles of bluish pills containing fentanyl were intercepted astatine the border. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection )

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Nate Moellering, the enforcement vice president of Allendale Treatment, an Indiana-based addiction attraction center, and himself a fentanyl survivor, blamed China's authorities for straight fueling the crisis.

"Some of our champion and brightest are having their precious lives chopped abbreviated due to the fact that of the greed and negligence connected the part of the CCP. Sanctions against China are a large archetypal measurement erstwhile it comes to the national government doing its part," Moellering told Fox News Digital. "This is not a reddish oregon bluish issue."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House for comment.