No. 1 - they produce most of our legal drugs:
80% of present medicines consumed in the United States are produced in China. This includes Chinese companies and foreign drug companies that have outsourced their drug manufacture in joint ventures with Chinese partners. According to Rosemary Gibson of the Hastings Center bioethics research institute, who authored a book in 2018 on the theme, the dependency is more than alarming.
Gibson cites medical newsletters giving the estimate that today some 80% of all pharmaceutical active ingredients in the USA are made in China.
“It’s not just the ingredients. It’s also the chemical precursors, the chemical building blocks used to make the active ingredients. We are dependent on China for the chemical building blocks to make a whole category of antibiotics … known as cephalosporins. They are used in the United States thousands of times every day for people with very serious infections.”
The made in China drugs today include most antibiotics, birth control pills, blood pressure medicines such as valsartan, blood thinners such as heparin, and various cancer drugs. It includes such common medicines as penicillin, ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), and aspirin. The list also includes medications to treat HIV, Alzheimer’s disease, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, cancer, depression, epilepsy, among others. A recent Department of Commerce study found that 97 percent of all antibiotics in the United States came from China.
Source - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-hints-blackmail-over-pharmaceutical-exports-would-plunge-us-mighty-sea
No. 2 - China is taking the COVID-19 pandemic seriously, while the US is not:
A Bay Area resident visited Kunming, in China's Yunnan province - about 1,000 miles southwest of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak originated - on January 25.
He said that he saw more safety precautions being taken in China than in the US and that officials understood the gravity of the situation.
Seeing how differently the Chinese and US governments handled the outbreak convinced him that he felt safer in China than he does on American soil.
Source - https://news.yahoo.com/california-man-self-quarantined-returning-173042979.html
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