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“China,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Beijing last month, “is providing information to international law enforcement that can be used to track and intercept illicit drugs and their precursors, and our two governments recently agreed to share best practices on closing loopholes in our financial systems that the drug traffickers and other criminal enterprises use to launder money.” Sounds nice. But it doesn’t mean much. China has cooperated with the United States before on the illegal drug trade, and on fentanyl in particular. The problem is that, like with climate change, China’s commitment to drug interdiction is wholly...