Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel walk past pallets of shrink-wrapped narcotics and a drone used in the investigations as they arrive for a news conference at Port Everglades, Fla., on April 9, 2025. Amy Beth Bennett /South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP
The United States continues to pressure Beijing over its role in America’s fentanyl crisis, with recent criminal convictions of Chinese executives and a presidential determination that identified China as a major drug transit or illicit drug-producing country.
China is widely recognized as the main source of precursor chemicals used to produce illicit fentanyl. Those chemicals are often shipped to other countries, particularly Mexico, where they are manufactured into final products and then transported into the United States.
