China’s long-term plan is to use fentanyl to ’take out generations of young men and women’ in the United States, FBI Director Kash Patel said.
Communist China has a long-term plan to weaken the United States by fueling the fentanyl crisis, according to FBI Director Kash Patel.
Patel sat down for a wide-ranging interview with podcaster Joe Rogan on June 6, saying that President Donald Trump has done an “amazing job” at going after drug trafficking organizations and shoring up the southern border. However, the root of the U.S. fentanyl crisis lies with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), he added, due to China’s exports of fentanyl precursors.
One thing is clear is that China is “not making a ton of money” with its precursor exports, Patel added.
“In my opinion, the CCP [has] used it as a directed approach because we are their adversary,” Patel said. “And their long-term game is, ‘how do I,’ in my opinion, ‘kneecap the United States of America, our largest adversary?’” Patel said.
Patel said that the long-term plan is to “take out generations of young men and women” who could have taken on jobs such as a police officer, a soldier, or a teacher.
“That’s what they [China] are doing, when you wipe out tens of thousands of Americans a year. It’s a long-term plan for them,” he said.
In 2024, there were an estimated 48,422 deaths involving synthetic opioid fentanyl, according to data from the CDC.
In March, Trump imposed an additional 20 percent on Chinese imports over China’s role in facilitating the production of fentanyl.
President Trump has raised the tariff on the People's Republic of China to 20% over their failure to address the fentanyl pouring into our country.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 3, 2025
Here is the text of the executive order he just signed:
FURTHER AMENDMENT TO DUTIES ADDRESSING THE SYNTHETIC OPIOID SUPPLY CHAIN…
Patel said China has lied to the world about stopping fentanyl precursors.
“What they did was to trick the world. They came out and said, ‘Hey, we’re gonna sell precursor X.’ They’re like, ‘So now we’re out of the fentanyl trade entirely,’” Patel said. “The problem is, there [are] 14 other precursors you can use to make fentanyl, and they’re still shipping all of those.”
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