On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” Select Committee on the CCP Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) discussed a report by the committee on China’s role in the fentanyl crisis and stated that the Chinese government subsidizes exports of illicit fentanyl and many of the companies who export fentanyl “actually are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.”
Krishnamoorthi said that when it comes to fentanyl exports to the U.S. by Chinese companies, the Chinese government, “to charitably put it, [turns] a blind eye and remain[s] unconcerned.”
Krishnamoorthi added that he doesn’t know if China does this on purpose and he doesn’t “have an answer as to what’s inside Xi Jinping’s head or the standing politburo.” But “they certainly know of the companies who receive these…tax rebates,
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