- A container that recently arrived in Mexico from China was purportedly found to contain the synthetic opioid.
- Beijing had denied such trafficking was taking place, after President Lopez Obrador wrote to Chinese leader Xi Jinping asking for helping curbing the drug flows
- Mexico has also denied that fentanyl is manufactured in its territory.
- ‘We already have the evidence’, Lopez Obrador said, adding that Mexico "very respectfully" asks China to seize such contraband at its ports if possible
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A from The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) has found that 52% of Asian Americans feel unsafe in the United States due to their race and ethnicity.
They felt the least safe on public transportation (29%), followed by in their own neighborhood (19%), school (19%), workplace (17%), local market (17%) and voting location (12%).
The survey also found that 78% — about four in five — of Asian Americans, especially young, Asian American women, do not completely feel they belong and are accepted.
Of the total respondents, a whopping 83% see China as a military or national security threat; 74% as an economic threat and 44% as a health threat.
Meanwhile, more than one in four respondents believe Asian Americans are more loyal to their country of origin than the U.S.
21% see people of Chinese descent as a threat.
20% of Americans see Asian Americans as responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monument for the
Artist and writer Judy Chui-Hua Chung have won the competition to design LA's memorial to victims of one of the deadliest attacks on Chinese people in U.S. history.
On Oct. 24, 1871, a mob of 500 white and Latino men killed at least 18 people (about 10% of the city’s Chinese population), by shooting or lynching.
“Some even got up on the roof with hatchets and tried to get in by cutting holes into the roof of the building, and then firing shots into the building hoping to hit somebody who was Chinese."
The youngest victim was just 15: Ah Loo was hung at a makeshift gallow in front of City Hall. Eight attackers were convicted but all would walk free after the judgments were overturned on a technicality.
The mass killing remains little-known even among Angelenos. Currently, the only marker of the massacre is a sidewalk plaque.
"This history wasn't part of the city's consciousness," Leong said. "I felt appalled that such history was left out and forgotten."
They felt the least safe on public transportation (29%), followed by in their own neighborhood (19%), school (19%), workplace (17%), local market (17%) and voting location (12%).
The survey also found that 78% — about four in five — of Asian Americans, especially young, Asian American women, do not completely feel they belong and are accepted.
Of the total respondents, a whopping 83% see China as a military or national security threat; 74% as an economic threat and 44% as a health threat.
Meanwhile, more than one in four respondents believe Asian Americans are more loyal to their country of origin than the U.S.
21% see people of Chinese descent as a threat.
20% of Americans see Asian Americans as responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monument for the
Artist and writer Judy Chui-Hua Chung have won the competition to design LA's memorial to victims of one of the deadliest attacks on Chinese people in U.S. history.
On Oct. 24, 1871, a mob of 500 white and Latino men killed at least 18 people (about 10% of the city’s Chinese population), by shooting or lynching.
“Some even got up on the roof with hatchets and tried to get in by cutting holes into the roof of the building, and then firing shots into the building hoping to hit somebody who was Chinese."
The youngest victim was just 15: Ah Loo was hung at a makeshift gallow in front of City Hall. Eight attackers were convicted but all would walk free after the judgments were overturned on a technicality.
The mass killing remains little-known even among Angelenos. Currently, the only marker of the massacre is a sidewalk plaque.
"This history wasn't part of the city's consciousness," Leong said. "I felt appalled that such history was left out and forgotten."
Since British capitalism pioneered industrialization, we've all been told that free-market capitalism is the ideal economic solution. However, the system coming out of China seems both unique and well-adapted to the coming challenges. It is way too early to tell, but I wonder if China has stumbled on a different economic system that can raise living standards that has different strengths and advantages compared to the free market.
Is more complex than that, economic desperation and hardships is making Americans to rely on drugs in order to cope and cartels take advantage of the situation by increasing the potency of their drugs using fentanyl.
Solving the economic situation like medical debt could cut drug use by a huge percentage.
Also the pharma lobby as with the gun lobby pushed for they unregulated sales of opioids that leave a lot of Americans addicted, these Americans later switched to heroin when they US tighten their opioid laws. They should start bye blaming they pharma lobby but because US politicians are 80+ year old teenagers I don't think they will ever accept responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
Lmao. Dutch farmers (~3000 farms) will be forced to sell their farms to the state or be seized without compensation. They will also be banned from creating any new farms within the EU.
Well, ask them if China was the lead producer of fentanyl when Pablo Escobar's cartel was the 7th largest business entity in the world just by its cocaine revenue in the US. It is almost like the problem is Americans drugging themselves up and their govt doing nothing substantial about it beyond subsidizing private prisons.
They are worse than Qing Dynasty. The Qing at least tried to solve the problem.We talk about MIC here but MIC is a joke compared to big health lobby. MIC has its profit margins restricted to start with and they are competitive. The healthcare industry eats almost 20% of the US GDP annually while returning bad results. And half of the Americans think regulating healthcare is communism. They are infinitely more successful than MIC in ripping off the USA.
Those are the shootings that managed to get media coverage. If we go by the numbers below then it’s ~1.48 mass shootings per day.
Rescue efforts underway in east China's Jiangxi amid floods
Source EditorLi Jiayao Time2023-05-08 10:20:20
Servicemen of the People's Armed Police Force evacuate residents trapped by flood in Chongren County, Fuzhou City, east China's Jiangxi Province, May 6, 2023. /CFP
Rescue efforts have been underway since Wednesday in east China's Jiangxi Province after torrential rains triggered floods, affecting 497,000 people across seven regions, according to the provincial emergency management department.
From Friday until 4:00 pm on Sunday, 14,000 people were evacuated from cities, including Fuzhou, Ji'an, and Yichun.
On Saturday, China's State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters dispatched a work team to the province to guide rescue and relief efforts after activating a level-IV emergency response for flood control.
Multiple rescue forces, including servicemen from the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police Force, members of the militia, and retired military personnel, were dispatched to carry out rescue operations.
A rescue team evacuating residents trapped by flood in Yichun City, east China's Jiangxi Province, May 5, 2023. /CFP
Local rescue teams were also assembled to provide emergency aid.
Due to heavy rains, villages in some mountainous areas of Xingan County in Ji'an City were flooded, leaving people trapped. Floodwaters and rain-triggered landslides also damaged crops, houses, and disrupted traffic.
Firefighters were deployed to the flood-hit region, where they distributed drinking water, bread, and other basic supplies to villagers. They also transferred the elderly to safe locations via rubber boats.
A rescue team of firefighters evacuate residents trapped by flood in a village in Ji'an City, east China's Jiangxi Province, May 6, 2023. /CFP
Several towns in Fuzhou City saw over 250 millimeters of rainfall in 24 hours from Friday evening, leaving streets and farmland flooded.
The local government organized firefighters, the emergency department, civilian rescue forces, and township cadres to carry out rescue operations. As of Saturday morning, they had evacuated 352 residents and rescued 14 trapped individuals in a town.
As of Sunday afternoon, local authorities reported that about 67,700 hectares (over 1 million mu) of crops were damaged, and direct economic losses exceeded 520 million yuan (around $75 million).