Chinese money brokers are teaming up with Mexican cartels, greasing the wheels of the fentanyl trade, U.S. officials say.

The Chinese government objects that President Donald Trump’s administration is using the fight against fentanyl as a “pretext” for the increasing tariffs on its goods, the spokesperson for the country’s embassy in Washington said Thursday.

Chinese fentanyl is partially responsible for 80,000 US deaths a year. Its exported poison doesn't stop there. A state-owned nicotine monopoly is pushing unsafe vapes on American buyers.

Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao has expressed strong dissatisfaction with U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods in a letter addressed to the newly confirmed U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the ministry said on Wednesday.

China and the Mexican cartels are not trying to create drug addicts — they [are] trying and succeeding at killing off our people — primarily young men. If we were in a traditional war with over

Dudzinski “Zink” Poole and 16 co-conspirators were sentenced to federal prison terms ranging from six years, up to life, in a multi-state drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, the US Attorney’s Office announced Friday.

Trump's tariffs on Mexico and Canada, aimed at curbing fentanyl flow, may worsen the crisis by spiking overdoses, a harm reduction advocate warns.