Two bloggers linked to China’s government floated the idea of upping the flow of deadly fentanyl into the U.S. in retaliation to President Trump’s tariffs, CNBC’s Eunice Yoon reported Tuesday.
Both Niu Tanquin and a blogger known as Rabbit Chairman posted messages on Chinese social media suggesting the state was preparing to end cooperation with the U.S. on fentanyl, according to screenshots which Yoon posted to X.
#China hints next steps in #tariff war with @realDonaldTrump. Two bloggers (one linked to @XHNews, other a known nationalist) both post lists of identical measures
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1) suspend cooperation on fentanyl
2) ramp up tariffs on farm imports (soybeans, sorghum) from… pic.twitter.com/ghUvP1GdUD
— Eunice Yoon (@onlyyoontv) April 8, 2025
Yoon, CNBC’s Beijing Bureau Chief, also noted that one of the bloggers was a “known nationalist” while the other…
