• Yu Haibin, deputy director of China National Narcotics Control Commission, shakes hands with Austin Moore, an attache for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, during a briefing in Xingtai, China, on Thursday. | AFP-JIJI
    Yu Haibin, deputy director of China National Narcotics Control Commission, shakes hands with Austin Moore, an attache for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, during a briefing in Xingtai, China, on Thursday. | AFP-JIJI

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XINGTAI, CHINA – A Chinese court on Thursday imprisoned nine people, one whom got a suspended death sentence, on charges of smuggling fentanyl into the United States, in the first such case the two countries had worked on together.

China has faced U.S. criticism for not doing enough to prevent the flow of fentanyl into the United States, and the issue has become another irritant in their ties, already strained by a bruising trade war the two are now working to end.

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