THREAD: "If China retaliates against the United States at this time, it will also announce strategic control over medical products and ban exports to the United States...the US will be caught in the ocean of the new coronaviruses," Xinhua, a commie state-run media agency.
Let that sink in for a minute. A communist Chinese state-run news agency threatened to withhold medical supplies and life-saving drugs from Americans.
China is the largest exporter of medical devices to the U.S., and the second largest exporter of drugs and biologics.
China is the largest exporter of medical devices to the U.S., and the second largest exporter of drugs and biologics.
Chinese pharmaceutical companies produce more than 90 percent of our supply of antibiotics, vitamin C, ibuprofen, and hydrocortisone. Though the United States also imports drugs from other countries, China is the world’s largest producer of active pharmaceutical ingredients.
It must end. It is in our national security interest to ensure that we are not heavily reliant upon any one nation, particularly one that is so hostile to our interests.
We need to be looking for options today to alleviate our dependence on China for pharmaceuticals.
We need to be looking for options today to alleviate our dependence on China for pharmaceuticals.
I have introduced the #BEATCHINA Act to incentivize these critical drug and medical supply manufacturing companies to move and produce in the United States and/or its territories.
Read more about the bill here: roy.house.gov/media/press-re…
