Donald Trump has praised
China for its policy of executing drug dealers.
In
a speech at the Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta on Wednesday, the president turned to China while talking about the country’s plans to upgrade the criminal status of fentanyl saying: ‘They’re gonna make it a major crime. It’s not a crime now. It’s down as an industrial drug, and they’re gonna make it a crime.”
He then added that he ‘appreciates’ the country’s policy of executing the dealers of drugs.
“They’re going to charge people with the highest level of crime,’ he
told the audience at the summit. ‘And in China, unlike in our country, the highest level of crime is very, very high. It’s the ultimate. You pay the ultimate price. So I appreciate that very much.”
China is one of at least four countries Amnesty International
listed as executing criminals for drug-related offences in a 2017 report. Amnesty International estimates the number of drug-related executions in the country to be in the thousands, but cannot confirm that number, as China’s executions are considered a state secret.
