Posted on 02/08/2022 10:44:45 AM PST by dvan
The Biden administration keeps poking the Russian bear about Ukraine. And Russia and China are teamed up together (in spite of some differences in objectives). Therefore, if we wind up confronting Russia over Ukraine, I would expect China to help Russia. And they could do that by cutting off our supply of medicine.
Professor David Jacobsen is an expert on China. He teaches at the Cox School of Business at the Southern Methodist University. According to Professor Jacobsen, the United States has given China the control of our pharmaceuticals. He said, “China controls almost 100% of the generic medications that are prescribed in the United States.”
Pharmacist Donna Barsky says that people talk about buying drugs from Canada. However, those drugs originate in China and India. She said, “We all get the same products from the same place, it’s just how it’s packaged: and it’s all coming from China.”
Even the mainstream media is writing about this. NBC wrote an article which has a subheading that is a quote from Brigadier General John Adams, who said, “Basically we’ve outsourced our entire industry to China… That is a strategic vulnerability.”
That article also says, “The vast majority of key ingredients for drugs that many Americans rely on are manufactured abroad, mostly in China.”
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That would also cut off the M O N E Y.
That's ain't gonna happen.
Hmmmm, I would have said the political parties, followed closely by the educational system.
“cut off the M O N E Y”
Someday they in China are going to find out that we in the USA conjure up dollars by computer.
An interruption lasting 2 or 3 weeks would be catastrophic for the US while the monetary impact to China would be minimal in the whole scheme of things. The message would be, mind your own business or the interruption could be a lot longer than 2 or 3 weeks.
Only if the hypochondriacs are in charge.
Oh! Wait!
They are!
“they could do that by cutting off our supply of medicine”
And we’d just respond by embargoing China, which would destroy their economy which is entirely dependent on both importing raw materials from the West and selling manufactured goods to the West.
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