Amid easing trade tensions, Trump blames China for ‘fentanyl menace’, seeks death for traffickers

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While Washington has long blamed Beijing for supplying fentanyl to the country, China has defended its drug control record and accused Washington of using fentanyl to “blackmail” China read more US President Donald Trump has accused China of not curbing the flow of precursor chemicals for fentanyl and said that the country should start sentencing people to death for the manufacture and distribution of the chemical that is behind thousands of deaths in the US. “I think we’re going to work it out so that China is going to end up going from that to giving the death penalty to...