It also comes a week after the security services in both countries praised the progress made in bilateral cooperation in the field of anti-drug law enforcement.
On Wednesday, while releasing the latest annual list of major source or designated transit countries for illicit drugs affecting the United States, the White House again described China as “the world’s largest producer of many of the chemical precursors used in the illicit production of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other deadly synthetic drugs.”
Trump said he raised the issue “directly” with Xi, according to the annual presidential resolution on the list submitted to the US Congress on Tuesday.
He pointed out that the Chinese government last year implemented new requirements for companies to obtain licenses before exporting specified chemicals to North America, while he said that this step was taken at his request.
