{"id":56622,"date":"2023-07-12T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/12\/opioid-crisis-us-and-china-at-odds-over-influx-of-fentanyl"},"modified":"2023-07-12T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T04:00:01","slug":"opioid-crisis-us-and-china-at-odds-over-influx-of-fentanyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56622","title":{"rendered":"Opioid crisis: US and China at odds over influx of fentanyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antony Blinken speaks at launch of US-led coalition to address synthetic drug threats<\/p>\n<p>Who is responsible for the United States\u2019 opioid epidemic? According to the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, the culprits are \u201ctransnational criminal enterprises\u201d who need to be tackled via international law enforcement operations.<\/p>\n<p>But according to Chinese <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2023-06-08\/Documentary-The-fight-against-fentanyl-1ktc38aWRna\/index.html?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">state media<\/a>, \u201cthe fentanyl crisis in the United States is demand-driven\u201d, primarily by \u201cthe users themselves\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/12\/opioid-crisis-us-and-china-at-odds-over-influx-of-fentanyl\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antony Blinken speaks at launch of US-led coalition to address synthetic drug threatsWho is responsible for the United States\u2019 opioid epidemic? According to the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, the culprits are \u201ctransnational criminal enterprises&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,372,1057,649,79,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-drugs","category-drugs-trade","category-opioids","category-society","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56623,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56622\/revisions\/56623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}