The Biden administration has formed a “working group” with the Chinese Communist Party to counter a growing global narcotics and fentanyl crisis, the State Department announced.

Multiple U.S. government departments—including State, Homeland Security, Justice, and Treasury—will work with Beijing to counter the global production and trafficking of narcotics, specifically fentanyl, according to a press release Thursday from the State Department.

China is chiefly responsible for shipping fentanyl precursors into Mexico, and those ingredients are then made into a final product and trafficked into the U.S., killing scores of Americans every year, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

The U.S.-China working group “complements other ongoing efforts by the State Department to counter the scourge of........

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