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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

China says US should have said ‘big thank you’ over fentanyl crackdown

China has expressed its willingness to open dialogue with the US amid the tit-for-tat trade war kickstarted by Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods over fentanyl.

The Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday said Mr Trump had undermined the bilateral counter-narcotics cooperation by imposing additional tariffs on Chinese goods and used the synthetic opioid as a bargaining chip to "blackmail" Beijing.

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