It's pretty serious to accuse a foreign government of intentionally helping in the poisoning/killing of your citizens. Especially in the current atmosphere of growing anti-Chinese paranoia in the US (which predates the Coronavirus outbreak), people shouldn't be throwing around such accusations without solid evidence.

In the article, Ben Westhoff gives a much less conspiratorial explanation of why China was slow to crack down on fentanyl:

> China does not have a fentanyl crisis nearly the scope that the US does, or Canada, also has a really big problem. And so to a lot of people, this is why China hasn't really cracked down on its fentanyl industry, because its own people aren't dying from it. And so the way the Chinese government works is, fentanyl is illegal there, but it's not so much just the laws on the books, it's what resources the government dedicates to cracking down on different problems. And so when it comes to meth, which is a huge problem among Chinese citizens, the government has really focused on trying to stamp it out, take drug dealers down, disrupt operations. But when it comes to fentanyl being made there, that's just not the case.