China subsidizing Fentanyl exports

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCUM is awesome: two pages on how fentanyl is the product of Chinese evils. Nothing at all about how the economics of fentanyl, the cheap synthesis of cheap chemicals, is just market forces in action, the same forces that our ruling class has treated for decades as indistinguishable from virtue.

Beating the fentanyl epidemic will take challenging our assumptions, not dropping more anti-Chinese racism. Or at the very least, not fooling ourselves about our ability to micromanage things in China. Maybe we need to focus on better (micro)management domestically???

Agree! How can we join together within our own country to stop this? It’s been said already that our government is already struggling within itself, so it’s going to be up to us to do something and speak up. But what message do we send? How can we as citizens help manage up here at home? Can we advocate for more tariffs on Chinese produced goods until they stop producing fentanyl for exportation? Can we request more inspections on items coming into our country? These may or may not be good ideas but what ideas (if any) can we rally around to truly make a change in this area?

Legalize Heroin and provide a safe regulated supply. Fentanyl is a result of the black market and need to smuggle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCUM is awesome: two pages on how fentanyl is the product of Chinese evils. Nothing at all about how the economics of fentanyl, the cheap synthesis of cheap chemicals, is just market forces in action, the same forces that our ruling class has treated for decades as indistinguishable from virtue.

Beating the fentanyl epidemic will take challenging our assumptions, not dropping more anti-Chinese racism. Or at the very least, not fooling ourselves about our ability to micromanage things in China. Maybe we need to focus on better (micro)management domestically???

Agree! How can we join together within our own country to stop this? It’s been said already that our government is already struggling within itself, so it’s going to be up to us to do something and speak up. But what message do we send? How can we as citizens help manage up here at home? Can we advocate for more tariffs on Chinese produced goods until they stop producing fentanyl for exportation? Can we request more inspections on items coming into our country? These may or may not be good ideas but what ideas (if any) can we rally around to truly make a change in this area?

Legalize Heroin and provide a safe regulated supply. Fentanyl is a result of the black market and need to smuggle.

When did heroin come back?

[Anonymous]

Democrats can bring back Remain-In-Mexico right this minute if they wanted to. But the Invasion of America is obviously their top priority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCUM is awesome: two pages on how fentanyl is the product of Chinese evils. Nothing at all about how the economics of fentanyl, the cheap synthesis of cheap chemicals, is just market forces in action, the same forces that our ruling class has treated for decades as indistinguishable from virtue.

Beating the fentanyl epidemic will take challenging our assumptions, not dropping more anti-Chinese racism. Or at the very least, not fooling ourselves about our ability to micromanage things in China. Maybe we need to focus on better (micro)management domestically???

Agree! How can we join together within our own country to stop this? It’s been said already that our government is already struggling within itself, so it’s going to be up to us to do something and speak up. But what message do we send? How can we as citizens help manage up here at home? Can we advocate for more tariffs on Chinese produced goods until they stop producing fentanyl for exportation? Can we request more inspections on items coming into our country? These may or may not be good ideas but what ideas (if any) can we rally around to truly make a change in this area?

Legalize Heroin and provide a safe regulated supply. Fentanyl is a result of the black market and need to smuggle.

When did heroin come back?

People abuse Oxycodone and Fentanyl because Heroin is illegal and seen as a street drug.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The USA has no idea what it is dealing with here. No idea. PandaLa

Exactly. We're a bunch of yahoos compared to a long Chinese history. They intend to win this game, while we're fighting each other instead of presenting a united determination to protect America.

This WH refuses to fight China in any significant way. They hate America.

[Anonymous]

China Building New Outpost on U.S. Doorstep, Leaked Documents Reveal

By Didi Kirsten Tatlow On 04/19/24 at 5:00 AM EDT

On a Caribbean island just 220 miles from the shore of the U.S. Virgin Islands, a black-clad Chinese security guard swept an arm at more than a thousand acres of woodland and a glittering, aqua-green marine reserve beyond.

"It's like a small country," he said in Chinese.

This natural paradise on the island of Antigua, where officials will study the thoughts of Xi Jinping, is about to be razed for a Chinese-run special economic zone. According to documents reviewed by Newsweek it will have its own customs and immigration formalities, a shipping port and a dedicated airline and will be able to issue passports. It will establish businesses offering everything from logistics to cryptocurrencies, facial surgery to "virology."

China, its state-owned companies and aligned private businesses are expanding rapidly in the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda and in other Caribbean countries in this strategic region long known as "America's third border," according to a Newsweek investigation of government and corporate documents as well as interviews with Antiguan leaders.

China's growing regional presence is potentially the greatest external challenge to the United States in the Americas since the Soviet Union set up in Cuba in the 1960s—and the U.S. military is concerned.

More: https://www.newsweek.com/2024/05/03/china-caribbean-united-states-antigua-belt-road-diplomacy-debt-chinese-xi-jinping-rivalry-1891668.html

[Anonymous]

Well we’re not exactly helping ourselves you know. China can do all this to us because of the issues plaguing our society. Their power is based on our weakness not sure why you see them as evil when we are our own worst enemy! If we started to address more of our country’s problems China would not be in a position to capitalize on our weaknesses - it’s our own fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:China Building New Outpost on U.S. Doorstep, Leaked Documents Reveal

By Didi Kirsten Tatlow On 04/19/24 at 5:00 AM EDT

On a Caribbean island just 220 miles from the shore of the U.S. Virgin Islands, a black-clad Chinese security guard swept an arm at more than a thousand acres of woodland and a glittering, aqua-green marine reserve beyond.

"It's like a small country," he said in Chinese.

This natural paradise on the island of Antigua, where officials will study the thoughts of Xi Jinping, is about to be razed for a Chinese-run special economic zone. According to documents reviewed by Newsweek it will have its own customs and immigration formalities, a shipping port and a dedicated airline and will be able to issue passports. It will establish businesses offering everything from logistics to cryptocurrencies, facial surgery to "virology."

China, its state-owned companies and aligned private businesses are expanding rapidly in the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda and in other Caribbean countries in this strategic region long known as "America's third border," according to a Newsweek investigation of government and corporate documents as well as interviews with Antiguan leaders.

China's growing regional presence is potentially the greatest external challenge to the United States in the Americas since the Soviet Union set up in Cuba in the 1960s—and the U.S. military is concerned.

More: https://www.newsweek.com/2024/05/03/china-caribbean-united-states-antigua-belt-road-diplomacy-debt-chinese-xi-jinping-rivalry-1891668.html

^ This is shocking and needs a separate thread.

[Anonymous]

Nothing to see here. J6 insurrectionists are a bigger threat.

[Anonymous]

Another example of the complete incompetence of Biden and his administration. He has done more harm to this country during his term than all of Obama and Carter’s many failures combined. And that’s saying something.

[Anonymous]

If Bill Clinton can bomb an aspirin factory, why can’t Joe Biden bomb a fentanyl factory? Or ten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Bill Clinton can bomb an aspirin factory, why can’t Joe Biden bomb a fentanyl factory? Or ten.

Democrats are all for depopulating Americans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another example of the complete incompetence of Biden and his administration. He has done more harm to this country during his term than all of Obama and Carter’s many failures combined. And that’s saying something.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, but we are way ahead of the Chinese when it comes to correct pronouns and rooting out micro aggressions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:China Building New Outpost on U.S. Doorstep, Leaked Documents Reveal

By Didi Kirsten Tatlow On 04/19/24 at 5:00 AM EDT

On a Caribbean island just 220 miles from the shore of the U.S. Virgin Islands, a black-clad Chinese security guard swept an arm at more than a thousand acres of woodland and a glittering, aqua-green marine reserve beyond.

"It's like a small country," he said in Chinese.

This natural paradise on the island of Antigua, where officials will study the thoughts of Xi Jinping, is about to be razed for a Chinese-run special economic zone. According to documents reviewed by Newsweek it will have its own customs and immigration formalities, a shipping port and a dedicated airline and will be able to issue passports. It will establish businesses offering everything from logistics to cryptocurrencies, facial surgery to "virology."

China, its state-owned companies and aligned private businesses are expanding rapidly in the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda and in other Caribbean countries in this strategic region long known as "America's third border," according to a Newsweek investigation of government and corporate documents as well as interviews with Antiguan leaders.

China's growing regional presence is potentially the greatest external challenge to the United States in the Americas since the Soviet Union set up in Cuba in the 1960s—and the U.S. military is concerned.

More: https://www.newsweek.com/2024/05/03/china-caribbean-united-states-antigua-belt-road-diplomacy-debt-chinese-xi-jinping-rivalry-1891668.html

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