Those Who Control The Medicines Control The World

The US can no longer even make vitamin C or aspirin any more, or 80% of their antibiotics. Something like 90% of the starting chemicals for essential US medicines are made in Chinese factories. And there aren’t many alternatives — fully 70% of competing products from India start with chemicals from China too. And now Chinese companies are shifting up into generic drugs as well.

The West, asleep, let the takeover happen. Western companies were driven out of business trying to compete with Chinese companies which were are subsidized by the CCP. But we were happy to take the cheaper drugs. That was, until we discovered what huge leverage we have given China. It’s a

As Gibson points out — personnel of the US Navy in the South China Sea are thus “dependent on their adversary for their medicine.”

Azithromycin (the antibiotic in the favourite Coronavirus treatment trio) is made in China. So is propofol which is used with ventilators.

December last year:

U.S. policymakers worry about China ‘weaponizing’ drug exports

Doug Palmer and Finbarr Bermingham, South China Morning Post

A watchdog report last month by the U.S.-China Economic […]