China is directly subsidizing production of illicit fentanyl precursors for sale abroad and fueling the U.S. opioid crisis‚ a U.S. congressional committee said on Tuesday‚ releasing findings from an investigation it said unveiled Beijing's incentives for the deadly chemicals. China continues to provide subsidies in the form of value-added tax rebates to its companies that manufacture fentanyl analogues‚ precursors and other synthetic narcotics‚ so long as they sell them outside of China‚ the...