The Fentanyl Lie: How Washington Blames China for Its Own Crisis | TCP-E6

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Why does Washington keep blaming China for America’s fentanyl crisis?
This episode breaks down the real geopolitical story: how the US healthcare system, VA opioid overprescription, Big Pharma, and domestic policy failures created the opioid epidemic — and why China’s precursor chemicals became a convenient political scapegoat.

We explain how fentanyl became part of the new US–China bargaining structure, why it sits alongside tariffs, soybeans, and Ukraine discussions, and how political optics turned a domestic disaster into a foreign-policy weapon.

This is a hard, data-driven look at how the fentanyl narrative is used in trade negotiations, election messaging, and global power politics.

**Chapters**

00:00 – Why the US Blames China for Fentanyl
03:12 – How America Created Its Own Opioid Crisis
07:40 – Veterans, PTSD and the Overprescription System
11:05 – From Big Pharma Abuse to Illicit Market Demand
14:22 – China, Precursor Chemicals and the Blame Game
18:55 – Mexico’s Role and Why Washington Ignores It
22:30 – How Fentanyl Became a Geopolitical Bargaining Chip
26:48 – The Trump–Xi Call: Fentanyl, Tariffs and Leverage
31:10 – The New US–China Power Equation

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