America’s Dependence On China For Medicine
Gives The CCP Massive Leverage
Posted By: Judy W., 6/2/2022 12:39:30 PM
In their 2018 book, “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine,” Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh painted a profoundly ominous picture of a world that had changed over the preceding 25 years. (Snip) In 2022, China is now the source for approximately 40% of the world’s Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), which are critical to making drugs. Few in the United States, even among physicians, are fully aware of just how drastic our dependence has become. Here are just a few examples. · About 97% of antibiotics used in the United States, including drugs as basic as penicillin and amoxicillin, now come from China.
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In their 2018 book, “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine,” Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh painted a profoundly ominous picture of a world that had changed over the preceding 25 years. (Snip) In 2022, China is now the source for approximately 40% of the world’s Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), which are critical to making drugs.
Few in the United States, even among physicians, are fully aware of just how drastic our dependence has become. Here are just a few examples.
· About 97% of antibiotics used in the United States, including drugs as basic as penicillin and amoxicillin, now come from China.
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Since we've been farming out manufacturing to China for so long, I wonder if we even have the capability to create and staff new factories here.