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But Qin Gang told Newsweek in an interview published on Thursday : "Blaming China is not a constructive way to address the fentanyl crisis." "So just think how shocking it was for China, for all these efforts, to be sanctioned by the United States in May 2020, with its essential institutions on fentanyl profiling and control, such as the Institute of Forensic Science of China's Ministry of Public Security and the National Narcotics Laboratory, added to America's 'entity list', only to curb China's capability to fight narcotics," the ambassador said.
"We hope that the United States will act to stabilise and improve its relations with China and lift the sanctions on Chinese institutions to remove obstacles for such co-operation to proceed," he said. US-China working groups to address the problem were set up in 2015 and President Xi Jinping promised former president Donald Trump three years later that he would crack down on the production and distribution of fentanyl.
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in a report last year that China remained "the primary country of origin" for fentanyl trafficking in the US, and that Mexican drug cartels were getting precursor chemicals from China.
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