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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is shutting down two offices in China.

Now, this could be a troubling sign that efforts to stop the flow of chemicals used in drugs

like fentanyl may have hit a wall.

According to AP, DEA administrator Anne Milgram told agents in an email last week that these

closings reflect the need to harness DEA's limited and strained resources to target where we can

make the biggest impact in saving American lives. Now, allegedly, the DEA is

looking to close a dozen or so, you know, more offices around the world, and also reduce its current

global count of 93 offices in 69 countries. Now, AP also says this. They say DEA veterans say it marked

yet another setback in the often halted cooperation

between the two geopolitical rivals, the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.

It also even though China has added dozens of fentanyl producing chemicals to its list of controlled substances

and warned companies against shipping them,

the country remains the world's largest source of precursors and fentanyl crises blamed for nearly

100,000 U.S. deaths every single year.

It also took years of U.S. requests before China even agreed to allow the DEA to open offices

outside of the capital of Beijing in 2017.

And it said hopes were high for its two agent office in Guangzhou, a major center for trade

and organized crime, and a similar outpost in Shanghai, the country's financial hub.

Now, look, this could actually be a sign that U.S. attempts

to work with the Chinese Communist Party to try to shut down fentanyl trafficking may not be working.

This was recently discussed between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. As

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