China-U.S. Collaboration Dismantles Transnational Crime Case

Beijing – The Chinese law enforcement authorities and the United States (US) have jointly dismantled a case of transnational crime involving the smuggling of new psychoactive substances, according to the Ministry of Public Security of China on Thursday. The ministry said that the Narcotics Control Bureau under the ministry and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of the US Department of Justice launched a joint investigation into the case in 2024. In February 2026, police in Tianjin, in northern China, arrested a suspect with the surname Gong based on information provided by the United States. Previously, US authorities had arrested a US citizen suspect connected to the same case in the state of Georgia, US. The successful resolution of this case reflects an institutionalised operation in China–US antinarcotics law enforcement cooperation and marks another practical result of their coordinated efforts to combat cross-border crime, the ministry said. The success also demonstrates the firm stance of the law enforcement agencies in both countries in showing zero tolerance for narcotics-related activity and transnational crime. Earlier this month, the Ministry of Public Security said that Chinese and US antinarcotics authorities jointly dismantled another narcotics trafficking case in April. In a series of operations conducted in China’s Liaoning and Guangdong provinces, and in the US states of Florida and Nevada, law enforcement officers arrested five suspects and seized a quantity of narcotics, breaking up the cross-border narcotics trafficking route spanning the two countries. In recent years, the Ministry of Public Security has stepped up the crackdown on illegal activities and crimes related to cross-border sales of precursor chemicals and new psychoactive substances. According to a ministry statement released earlier this month, police nationwide have dismantled 29 related crime cases and arrested 157 suspects since 2025.