{"id":1532766,"date":"2025-04-28T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1532766"},"modified":"2025-04-28T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:35:00","slug":"schweizer-chinese-chemists-working-with-mexican-cartels-creating-fentanyl-to-kill-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/schweizer-chinese-chemists-working-with-mexican-cartels-creating-fentanyl-to-kill-americans\/1532766\/","title":{"rendered":"Schweizer: Chinese Chemists Working With Mexican Cartels Creating Fentanyl To Kill Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Schweizer: Chinese Chemists Working With Mexican Cartels Creating Fentanyl To Kill Americans<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer is once again speaking out against China&#8217;s sinister role in fueling America&#8217;s deadly fentanyl crisis, as President Donald Trump seeks to punish the communist regime for its involvement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/peter-schweizer.jpg?itok=v3p7DQPd\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>There are 2000 Chinese nationals in northern Mexico working for the Sinaloa drug cartel<\/strong>,&#8221; Schweizer, citing DEA data, told <a href=\"https:\/\/wabcradio.com\/episode\/peter-schweizer-there-are-2000-chinese-chemists-working-in-mexico-creating-fentanyl-to-kill-americans-04-25-25\/\">The Cats and Cosby Show<\/a> on Friday. &#8220;<strong>They\u2019re basically chemists.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>They take the precursor chemicals that, of course, arrive from China and they turn it into the deadly cocktail, which is what people are dying from<\/strong>. <strong>They produce pills.<\/strong> People who die of fentanyl overdose, they think they\u2019re talking a Vicodin or Adderall,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start div episode embed --><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container embedded-advance-single-player\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- End div episode embed --><\/p>\n<p>Although fentanyl-related deaths in the U.S. are declining, the crisis remains a grim reality. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db522.htm\">CDC<\/a>, a staggering 76,226 Americans died from overdoses involving synthetic opioids\u2014primarily fentanyl\u2014in 2022, delivering a gut-punch to communities nationwide.<strong> Provisional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/nchs_press_releases\/2024\/20240515.htm\">data <\/a>from 2023 shows a slight decline, with 74,702 deaths linked to these powerful substances.<\/strong> Even more striking, the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/drug-overdose-data.htm\">CDC and DEA<\/a> figures estimate approximately 55,126 deaths from synthetic opioids in the 12 months ending September 2024\u2014a significant and hopeful drop, but still a sobering reminder of fentanyl\u2019s ongoing toll.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Donald Trump has repeatedly pointed the finger at China as a key culprit in America\u2019s fentanyl crisis, accusing Beijing of fueling the epidemic by allowing precursor chemicals to flow to Mexican cartels<\/strong>. In a February 2025 White House statement, Trump accused China of subsidizing companies to export fentanyl-related chemicals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/02\/imposing-duties-to-address-the-synthetic-opioid-supply-chain-in-the-peoples-republic-of-china\/\">describing<\/a> the crisis as a \u201cnational emergency\u201d killing \u201capproximately two hundred Americans per day.\u201d He\u2019s tied this to his trade agenda, imposing a 20% tariff on Chinese imports\u2014on top of a 10% base tariff\u2014explicitly to pressure Beijing on fentanyl. On April 24, 2025, Trump posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-04-24\/pboc-s-pan-warns-trade-frictions-threaten-trust-in-world-economy\">Truth Social,<\/a> \u201cFentanyl continues to pour into our Country from China, through Mexico and Canada, killing hundreds of thousands of our people, and it better stop, NOW!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>China has consistently denied accusations that it is a primary driver of the U.S. fentanyl crisis<\/strong>. Chinese officials argue that the crisis is a U.S. domestic issue rooted in demand, not their supply of precursor chemicals. In March 2025, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian<a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20250304\/c583242839fe4d84aafd36d400ad91d6\/c.html\"> stated<\/a> the root cause of the fentanyl issue lies in the United States itself. Lin also <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20250304\/c583242839fe4d84aafd36d400ad91d6\/c.html\">criticized<\/a> the U.S. for imposing tariffs under the pretext of the fentanyl issue, calling such actions unjustified and counterproductive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sun, 04\/27\/2025 &#8211; 21:35<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/schweizer-chinese-chemists-working-mexican-cartels-creating-fentanyl-kill-americans\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/schweizer-chinese-chemists-working-mexican-cartels-creating-fentanyl-kill-americans<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schweizer: Chinese Chemists Working With Mexican Cartels Creating Fentanyl To Kill Americans New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer is once again speaking out against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1532767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6qK2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/peter-schweizer-xnLucM.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}