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US treasury takes aim at Chinese opioid exporters

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It’s not just the Chinese state the US government is escalating tensions with. Now it’s after their pushers and peddlers, with news that it has labelled three Chinese drug manufacturing businessmen and their companies as violators of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. Freightwaves reports that the US treasury accuses Chinese nationals Fujing Zheng, Guanghau Zheng and Xiaobing Yan of being prominent narcotics traffickers.

 

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