Chinese Trial for Fentanyl Precursors

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Chinese citizens stand trial for fentanyl-related charges in landmark US case

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Two Chinese citizens are standing trial in New York for charges related to the illicit fentanyl trade.

Defendants Wang Qingzhou and Chen Yiyi were apprehended in a sting operation in Fiji in June 2023 .

Prosecutors say the defendants and the company that employed them shipped more than 200 kilograms of illicit fentanyl-related chemical precursors to the US .

Fentanyl overdoses have surged in recent years to become a leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45 .

China stepped up its crackdown on the production and sale of the drug in 2019 .

China has built on earlier efforts to tighten regulation and curb production of fentanyl-related chemicals.

China and the US resumed counter-narcotics collaboration in late 2023 .

Chinese authorities have pushed back against assertions that controlling precursor chemical production can fix the problem.

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