US-China fentanyl talks hang by thread amid trade war

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"It just doesn't even feel real," Ginger said. "So I get up every day and you look around, you see all the photos, and it makes me really sad."

US-China fentanyl talks hang by thread amid trade war

Talks continue between the U.S. and China on tackling the fentanyl epidemic amid the bitter trade war between the world’s two largest economies, four U.S. officials familiar with the discussions told Reuters, even as American negotiators claim the Chinese are failing to negotiate in good faith.

Exclusive-US-China fentanyl talks hang by thread amid trade war

By Michael Martina

This is a change in Trump's tone towards Beijing after recent conciliatory statements.

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No single country can respond to the fentanyl challenge alone. What’s needed is joint effort and sustained cooperation – not economic coercion.

As the US-China trade war intensified, Dong Mingzhu, chairman of China's Gree Electric Appliances, publicly said that Gree would never employ overseas returnees because "there are spies among them", sparking controversy. Some scholars pointed out that Dong Mingzhu's statement was in line with the intentions of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, and revealed the inside story of the CCP's "control and use" of some overseas returnees.