{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F264dfe67-cc66-470e-91ed-9ce713c23556","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"How Fentanyl Fits in Communist China\u2019s Endgame with America\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/264dfe67-cc66-470e-91ed-9ce713c23556\"></iframe>","title":"How Fentanyl Fits in Communist China\u2019s Endgame with America","description":"President Donald Trump has imposed an additional 20 percent tariff on all goods made in China, citing a national emergency on the continued trafficking of fentanyl\u2014a deadly opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine\u2014into the United States.\r\n\r\n\r\nTo this day, China remains the primary source of fentanyl precursors, which are shipped to Mexico, where they\u2019re manufactured into the illicit drug. It is then smuggled into the United States mainly via the southern border.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has called the fentanyl epidemic the United States\u2019 \u201cown problem\u201d and has cast the U.S. tariffs as \u201cblackmail.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\nHowever, Yuan Hongbing, a former law professor at Peking University in China who now lives in Australia, said the American opioid epidemic is far from the self-inflicted wound the CCP has suggested it is.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe China expert, who has insider access to senior CCP leaders, further stated that fentanyl is at the core of Xi Jinping\u2019s bid to \u201ctake revenge\u201d on the West.\r\n\r\n\r\nRead the Original Report:\r\nhttps://www.theepochtimes.com/article/chinas-role-in-us-fentanyl-crisis-directed-by-regime-leadership-expert-says-5833296 (China\u2019s Role in US Fentanyl Crisis Directed by Regime Leadership, Expert Says)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nClips Played:\r\nPresident Trump Addresses House Republican Issues Conference via https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-remarks-to-national-republican-congressional-committee/474033 (C-SPAN)\r\n\r\n\u2014\r\nTerri Wu is a Washington-based freelance reporter for The Epoch Times covering education and China-related issues. Send tips to terri.wu@epochtimes.com.\r\n\r\nSign up for our https://www.theepochtimes.com/newsletter#audio (newsletter) to get the latest podcast episodes from The Epoch Times.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/c30d9744-042c-4e3e-9247-fd282dbff915/wa5oZCaKeLxFhL0umSnBT0Yd.jpg"}