Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar.

If China can stop fentanyl from pouring out of their country, why can't the US stop it from pouring in?

I suspect that if a different country started producing fentanyl on the scale that China does, but offered it at a 10% reduced price, we would purchase the drug from that country instead.

then the blame would shift from China to the new country.

maybe instead of blaming others, we should fix ourselves. stop buying cheap dangerous drugs and decriminalize the drugs we do have

I haven't read anything yet on the source of the fentanyl, do you have a worthwhile link?

It's relatively well known that if there's a chemical you want, there are several factories in China that will make it and ship it to you.

Anabolic Steroids are one example, Fentanyl is another, I'm sure there are many more.

For example I wouldn't be surprised if there's a black market for agricultural chemicals that are banned in the US but you can get them from China.