China has agreed to crack down on companies exporting chemicals used to make fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid, in a deal that will be sealed when Joe Biden and Xi Jinping meet this week, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
The deal is expected to be among several to emerge from the summit in San Francisco on Wednesday, Biden and Xi’s second meeting as leaders, as the two sides try to stabilise US-China relations that have sunk to their worst state in four decades.
It would mark a significant achievement for the Biden administration, which has sought to tackle the proliferation of fentanyl, a drug that is 50 times more potent than heroin and that has been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths in the US.
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