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by Drieu Godefridi • April 23, 2025 at 5:00 am
* This global catastrophe [China having lied about the human-to-human transmissibility of COVID-19] was followed by China's sending the poison fentanyl – and, after 2019, "just" its precursor ingredients -- to the US, along with other lethal opioids. The smallest amount of fentanyl, equivalent to "a few grains of salt," can cause death. During the last five years, more than 250,000 Americans have been killed by fentanyl overdoses.
* The pattern is familiar: a Western company invests years in research and development, launches an innovative product, and a short while later an almost identical copy turns up, from China, at a much lower price. No development costs, no middlemen, just direct access to the same market, with subsidized pricing to put the original company out of business. How can the inventor ever win like that?
* If we continue to allow ourselves to be drained by a regime that never plays by the rules, the United States will end up where Europe already finds itself: with massive deindustrialization, strategic dependency and weakness in times of crisis. Trump appears, at least for now, committed to turning that future around.
* So let us criticize the orange man: his methods, his sometimes untoward comments, his impulsive shifts. But let us not lose sight that when it comes to the bottom line, in reining in a lawless predatory Chinese market and reindustrializing America, he is right. No one else even tried.

China's lie about the human-to-human transmissibility of COVID-19 was followed by China's sending the poison fentanyl – and, after 2019, "just" its precursor ingredients -- to the US, along with other lethal opioids. The smallest amount of fentanyl, equivalent to "a few grains of salt," can cause death. During the last five years, more than 250,000 Americans have been killed by fentanyl overdoses. (Image source: iStock/Getty Images)

In the tariff war launched by US President Donald Trump against China, much is said about the Americans' strategy, mistakes and "brutality". Less is said about China. Here are three truths about China's relationship with the West that help to better nuance a simplistic thinking that many so readily embrace.

1. China's homicides have poisoned the world

During the COVID -19; crisis, vaccines heated up tempers to such an extent that many people lost sight of the fact that vaccines were merely an answer to the original problem: the virus. Whether it escaped from a laboratory or came from a "wet market", COVID is in all instances a legacy of the Chinese communist regime to the world.

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