During his congressional hearing this week, former US Attorney General Bill Barr placed the whole burden of the country’s fentanyl issue on communist China.

In testimony on Tuesday, Barr discussed a 64-page paper titled “The CCP’s Role in The Fentanyl Crisis” before the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party.

According to Barr, the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States each year surpasses the number of American casualties during the most intense year of World War II.

“The fentanyl that is killing Americans is coming from the [People’s Republic of China],” the speaker declared. China produces nearly all of the illegal fentanyl precursors and fentanyl that the US imports. These are the essential components that power the traffic in fentanyl.

He went on, “There is no feasible substitute for anywhere close to the level of precursors required to power this trade.” “To put it simply, there would be no fentanyl crisis in the United States, and the mass massacre would virtually end if China did not produce and export fentanyl and fentanyl precursors.”

According to Barr, the Chinese Communist Party was a major force behind the entire situation rather than only a “bystander.”

He declared, “They are knee deep in the production and shipment of fentanyl and the precursors to fentanyl for distribution in the U.S., actively funding, encouraging, and assisting it.” “First, the committee’s investigators have discovered a hidden [Chinese] government website that is fully operational right now and offers full tax rebates to encourage the export of all synthetic narcotics, including fentanyl analogs and precursors, which are drugs that are illegal in China and the United States and that both countries have no legitimate use for.”

According to him, Chinese businesses are able to “essentially operate tax-free when they export fentanyl precursors” thanks to the tax breaks provided to them.

He went on to say that the probe has turned up proof that China “awards funds and incentives to enterprises that are involved in open and notorious synthetic narcotic manufacturing and drug trafficking.”

According to Barr, there is proof that China was deliberately involved in this action, and the United States should not expect China to behave honorably or to show “goodwill” toward the country.

He stated, “The important thing to remember here is that the PRC and the CCP have the power to shut this down.” “This is not happening in Burma’s rain forests. This is happening in a contemporary surveillance state among a controllable number of businesses in industrial parks. The Chinese are able to locate someone in one of their cities with just a few keystrokes and a button push in less than a minute, knowing precisely where they are. They are aware of what exists online. They are definitely aware of what is going on.

He added that he has not heard of any modifications made by China to its nefarious practices of flooding the United States with fentanyl since President Joe Biden met with Chinese ruler Xi Jinping.