cheney which has caused some great tension between the two countries, and then when the secretary of defense, mitchell lloyd, was recently at the same place in singapore would his chinese counterpart, china denied him a meeting. the biden administration looking to reestablish regular channels of communication. also to express u.s. concerns on a number of fronts when it comes to global issues, the war in ukraine, regional issues, of course, taiwan, and bilateral issues. one of the issues that a senior administration official said would be critical in these conversations was addressing the fentanyl issue. the precursor chemicals coming to the united states forming fentanyl, that opioid crisis that is a tremendous killer of americans are coming from china. the secretary is going to address that with his chinese counterpart. he will also address the three americans wrongfully detained in china. then what he will try to do is touch on areas where the u.s. and china can work together.
president xi, later this year. i am hoping that over the next several months i ll be meeting with xi again and talking about legitimate differences we have, but also how those areas, how we can get along. reporter: now, of course, one of the things we are watching for is if secretary of state antony blinken is awarded a meeting with president xi while he is here on the ground in beijing. we don t see one on the schedule yet. of course, that could be added. the secretary also said that he going to be talking to his cheese counterpart about issues where there are concerns, global issues like the war in ukraine, regional issues like taiwan, and then bilateral issues, issues between the united states and china. for example, the fentanyl issue at home, the opioid crisis, which is a major killer of americans, has a connection to china because a lot of the precursor chemicals for fentanyl come from china.
mexico, and we will keep the provisions of title 42, and instead of catch and release, we will go to catch and deport. that s the way we will stop the bleeding on our border. when it comes to the cartels, we treat them like the terrorists that they are. we get our special operations military and we go in and we capture them just like we have gone after terrorists before and we wipe them out. we have to realize, we are losing americans by the day and we have to stop whether it s the fentanyl coming across or the illegal immigrants coming across, we have to close the border. just a point on the fentanyl issue, because it s such an important issue, and most of the fentanyl that comes into the country illegally from mexico, chinese supplies to mexico, and it s smuggled through ports of entry by american citizens. the fentanyl crisis, 90% of it is irrelevant to that.
bleeding on our border. we have to do this. and when it comes to the cartels, we treat them like the terrorists that they are. we get our special operations military and we go in and we capture them just like we ve gone after terrorists before and we wipe them out. we ve got to realize we are losing americans by the day and we ve got to stop whether it s the fentanyl coming across, whether it s illegal immigrants coming across, we ve got to close the border. [ applause ] so just a point on the fentanyl issue because it is such an important issue. most of the fentanyl, and this is not an excuse for it, but most of the fentanyl that comes into this country illegally from mexico, a lot of it from chinese supplies to mexico, comes through ports of entry and it s smuggled by american citizens. i mean, the immigration crisis notwithstanding, the fentanyl crisis is about 90% of it s irrelevant to that. what would you which is why you sanction china immediately. china knows what they r
will: fox news alert, growing tensions with china this morning as one of their warships nearly hits a u.s. destroy, coming within 150 yards in the taiwan strait. this latest act of aggression coming just days after a chinese jet flew within 400 feet of a u.s. recon flight over the south china sea. retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel allen are west joins us now. colonel, great to see you this morning. great on with you, will. will: they re saying we are the provocateurs, we re near their homeland, they are saying we are the ones causing this heightened tension. what are we supposed to read from these situations? what we re supposed to the realize is that china s our numb one geopolitical foe, and we need to the start getting back ott moral if high ground that we once had against them. china s the one that that has killed hundreds of thousands of americans due to the fentanyl issue, killed millions of americans because of the release of the covid virus. and so we have a president th