{"id":17914,"date":"2025-11-13T05:06:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17914"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:55:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:55:43","slug":"fbi-director-patel-says-china-has-agreed-to-work-with-u-s-to-tighten-control-on-fentanyl-precursors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17914","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Patel Says China Has Agreed to Work with U.S. to Tighten Control on Fentanyl Precursors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/11\/13\/fbi-director-patel-says-china-has-agreed-to-work-with-u-s-to-tighten-control-on-fentanyl-precursors\/\">https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/11\/13\/fbi-director-patel-says-china-has-agreed-to-work-with-u-s-to-tighten-control-on-fentanyl-precursors\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/trump-china-meeting_840x480.webp\" style=\"margin: 1em auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday\u00a0announced\u00a0that China has agreed to tighten control over chemicals used to produce fentanyl, including by banning several of the precursors to the lethal drug.<\/p>\n<p>Patel quietly visited China last week to meet with his Chinese counterparts about\u00a0cracking down\u00a0on the chemicals that are used to create the drug. The United States listed China as a major illicit drug producer in 2023 and President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Beijing earlier this year for not doing more to stem the flow of fentanyl into the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/11\/13\/fbi-director-patel-says-china-has-agreed-to-work-with-u-s-to-tighten-control-on-fentanyl-precursors\/ FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday\u00a0announced\u00a0that China has agreed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":17916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-daily-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17917,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17914\/revisions\/17917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}