Fentanyl abuse in US entirely its own responsibility

Editor's note: Abuse of Fentanyl is a major problem in the United States, but rather than facing up to the real causes some politicians in the country are trying to push the responsibility onto China. Zhong Sheng, a columnist for People's Daily, comments:

Facts speak for themselves. Since announcing it would regulate all drugs of the Fentanyl kind on Dec 1, 2018, China completed the legislation within four months. Now China has strict control over 25 fentanyl substances and their two precursors, more than those controlled by the United Nations.

In 2017 alone, the Chinese authorities shared over 400 clues about drugs of the Fentanyl kind with the US, plus over 500 cases involving US customers buying new psychoactive substances.