China, the US: Opioid wars.

Also: the EU, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova and Ethiopia.

Two poor Chinese opium smokers, unknown, c19th century, gouache painting on rice paper, Wellcome Collection, London.

CHINA. UNITED STATES. Opioid wars.

New battlelines are drawn in foreign and domestic policy.

Washington on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a number of Chinese firms it accused of illicit fentanyl proliferation. US officials met with Mexican cou…