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Root cause of fentanyl issue does not lie with China: FM spokesperson
Xinhua| 2019-08-02 23:46:29
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A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said here Friday that the root cause of the fentanyl issue in the United States does not lie with China, urging the country to look harder for the cause at home.

"China always honors its pledges," said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying after a daily press briefing when asked to comment on U.S. President Donald Trump's post on Twitter on Thursday accusing Beijing of failing to fulfil promises to stop sales of the synthetic opioid fentanyl to the United States.

Hua said the Chinese government issued an announcement and offered detailed information on the class scheduling of fentanyl-related substances in April.

Relevant measures took effect on May 1, winning the acclaim of American people from all walks of life, she said.

The class scheduling of fentanyl-related substances is an important move by the Chinese government to ward off the risk and potential harm of new-type drugs to guarantee people's well-being and to participate in global drug control to safeguard security and stability of the world, Hua said.

"The root cause of the fentanyl issue in the United States does not lie with China. To solve the problem, the United States should look harder for the cause at home," Hua said.
 
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Hong Kong police fire tear gas in Tsim Sha Tsui and Mong Kok as protesters hit back with petrol bombs
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Fresh round of tear gas fired in Wong Tai Sin
Police fire a fresh round of tear gas in Wong Tai Sin, as clashes break out between protesters and those living in the disciplined services quarters.

Both groups had earlier hurled objects at each other.
 
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China hits back at Donald Trump’s fentanyl claim, saying US ‘only has itself to blame’ for opioid crisis
  • State media says Beijing ‘has made unprecedented efforts’ to address the problem and the number of trafficking cases to the US is ‘very small’
  • It comes after Trump accused China of failing to stop the sale of the synthetic painkiller to America
Updated: 11:14pm, 4 Aug, 2019
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Chinese state media has hit back at US President Donald Trump’s accusation that China had failed to stop the sale of painkiller fentanyl to America, saying Beijing had done its part and the US “only has itself to blame” for the opioid crisis.

In a commentary on Sunday, state news agency Xinhua rejected Trump’s claim in a tweet last week, calling it “blatant slander”.

“China has made unprecedented efforts in addressing the
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, in terms of issuing laws and regulations, conducting an overall market inspection and stepping up police investigations,” the commentary read.
“Chinese law enforcement has uncovered cases of illegal processing or trafficking of fentanyl-like substances to the United States, but the number [of such cases] is very small – it is impossible for China to be a major source of fentanyl-like substances in the United States.”

It said four cases of fentanyl being trafficked from China to the US had been reported in the second quarter of the year by the US customs authority, citing US Drug Enforcement Administration data.

According to the commentary, that indicated the “flow of fentanyl-like substances to the United States from China, which was already low, has significantly declined”.

On Thursday, a day after the latest round of US-China trade talks wrapped up in Shanghai, Trump tweeted that
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US$300 billion worth of Chinese goods from September 1. He said China had “agreed to buy agricultural product from the US in large quantities, but did not do so”. In another tweet, he said: “Additionally, my friend President Xi [Jinping] said that he would stop the sale of fentanyl to the United States – this never happened, and many Americans continue to die.”
The state media offensive came after senior officials in Beijing also dismissed Trump’s accusation. Liu Yuejin, deputy director of the National Narcotics Control Commission, told state broadcaster CCTV on Saturday that “in fact, compared to the US controls on fentanyl ingredients, our country has much stricter rules”.

China introduced
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on May 1 aimed at stopping illegal production and sale of the drugs, after repeated requests from Washington to include such a measure in a trade deal. But the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy was sceptical about whether it would be effective. After Trump’s comments on Thursday, it said the administration had not “directly seen any large-scale seizures or law enforcement action by the Chinese on fentanyl”. “We’ll continue to press China to follow through on the promise they made to keep fentanyl out of our communities,” it said.

Some US officials and experts have said any crackdown would depend on progress in resolving
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Derek Scissors, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, said that scepticism was well placed.

“What the Chinese have effectively said is we should forget what they said just a few months ago. If they don’t like the trade situation, the fentanyl and related products will continue to flow,” he said.

Fentanyl is an opioid painkiller 50 times more potent than heroin, and has a central role in the devastating US opioid crisis. In the US, fentanyl and all of its analogues are controlled substances subject to strict regulation. More than 28,000 synthetic opioid-related overdose deaths, mostly from fentanyl-related substances, were recorded in 2017, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
 

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TWO mass shootings in less than 48 hours!:(:mad:

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Leading Democrats demanded the Trump administration act to curb white nationalists following the worst attack on Latinos in US history.

The US president was accused of stoking up the hatred with his rhetoric, including his vitriolic attack on four ethnic minority congresswomen last month.

It was this climate, Democrats said, which culminated in the carnage at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas leaving 20 dead and 26 injured, of whom three are reported to be in a critical condition.

Attention focused to the threat posed by the far-right following the discovery a lengthy racist manifesto reportedly left by Patrick Crusius, 21, from Allen in Dallas Texas, the man named by US media outlets as suspected of being responsible for the slaughter.

District Attorney, Jaime Esparza, said that he would seek the death penalty for the suspect. John Bash, the US Attorney said the mass shooting was being treated as a domestic terrorism case.

The El Paso massacre was the third high profile attack linked to the far right in less than five years.

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Hong Kong protesters gather in seven locations as citywide strike continues
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Thousands take part in an anti-extradition rally in Sha Tin that spills from outside into New Town Plaza. Two giant banners hang inside the shopping mall, with the words: “Our hearts are struck by pain, retract the evil law”.

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Hong Kong police warn Tai Po protesters to 'leave immediately', airport sit-in grows
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4:55PM
To retreat or not

After about 10 minutes of heated discussions, the crowd on Nam Wan Road decides to retreat for one block and set up barricades there, instead of staying only 50 metres from police in full riot gear. Those who advocate withdrawal say police have planned for a long time and could round up a great number of protesters. Those insisting on staying say they will make their own choices.

Protesters on the front line eventually agree to retreat after a middle-aged man tells them to save energy for the march in Island East tomorrow (Sunday).

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Riot police swoop down Park Lane Shopper's Boulevard in Tsim Sha Tsui, unleashing tear gas to clear protesters
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Police swoop in on Park Lane
Officers have moved in to clear protesters outside Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station near Park Lane Shopper's Boulevard. Multiple shots of tear gas are fired.


 
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Anti-government protesters fills the arrival hall at Hong Kong International Airport in response to a protester being struck in the eye by a beanbag round. Photo: Felix Wong

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