{"id":5510,"date":"2026-10-03T02:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/fentanyl-wmd-order-changes-u-s-fight-with-china\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:50:40","slug":"fentanyl-wmd-order-changes-u-s-fight-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/fentanyl-wmd-order-changes-u-s-fight-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Fentanyl WMD Order Changes U.S. Fight With China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/G0ZVekK1rwk\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIVE | Trump&amp;apos;s EMERGENCY Message From Whitehouse; Drops NUCLEAR Bombshell On Iran, Russia, China\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G0ZVekK1rwk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 October 3, 2026 (STL.News) President Donald Trump\u2018s designation of illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as weapons of mass destruction is more than a change in terminology. It places the fentanyl crisis deeper inside the United States\u2019 national-security apparatus and could significantly alter how Washington confronts Chinese chemical suppliers, Mexican drug cartels, international financial networks and countries that serve as links in the global synthetic-drug supply chain. Trump signed Executive Order 14367 on Dec. 15, 2025, declaring illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals to be weapons of mass destruction, or WMDs. The order<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/fentanyl-wmd-order-changes-u-s-fight-with-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 October 3, 2026 (STL.News) President Donald Trump\u2018s designation of illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as weapons of mass destruction is more than a change in terminology. It places the fentanyl crisis deeper inside the United&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5512,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions\/5512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}