pharmaceutical, strategic-mineral, and other concerns in China to come home. ![]() ![]() “That’s because China currently controls roughly 90% of the global supply of inputs needed to make the generic antibiotics that treat bronchitis, pneumonia, pediatric ear infections, and life-threatening conditions, such as sepsis.”Ĭongress should pass and Biden should sign robust incentives to entice U.S. has virtually no capacity to manufacture antibiotics,” health care expert Rosemary Gibson wrote in Market Watch. American military and diplomatic prestige would plunge even as atrocities and bloodshed in Taiwan soared. Letting the Chinese Communist Party crush its island neighbor would trample the Taiwan Relations Act, America’s de facto commitment to the integrity of that prosperous, free-market, constitutional republic. If, God forbid, the Chinese Communist Party attacked Taiwan, it’s hard to imagine that Beijing would not use antibiotics and other vital drugs to extort US neutrality while China conquers and communizes that nation.Īmerica could face this rotten choice: Defend Taiwan and, before long, watch helplessly as strep throat, gonorrhea, meningitis, and other bacterial infections went untreated, perhaps fatally so, or keep the life-sustaining antibiotics flowing as Beijing strangles Taipei. That chilling hypothetical and last week’s all-too-real spy balloon fiasco should make it excruciatingly clear that America urgently needs to repatriate critical industries from China back to the USA. We eagerly await the White House’s response.” ![]() Imagine what would Joe Biden or a future president of the United States would do if Chinese dictator Xi Jinping dispatched another spy balloon toward America and declared: “If America destroys our peace-loving balloon, we will have no choice but to suspend immediately, and until further notice, all U.S.-bound exports of Chinese-made antibiotics and antibiotic precursor chemicals.
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