Beijing condemns the inclusion of 17 Chinese people and companies on the "blacklist" of the Treasury Department through its Embassy in Mexico. The message of rejection came through the embassy of the Asian country in Mexico, just a day after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for a "truce" The punishments focused on companies that trade in pill prey and other equipment that allow criminal groups to create "pirated versions" of drugs adulterated with fentanyl.

The Asian country has insisted that the problem is "made in the USA" and that it has nothing to do with the global transfer of drugs.