Report: Americans completely reliant on China for antibiotics

11:57 AM 02/17/2014

Christopher Bedford
Managing Editor

The United States is nearly completely reliant on China for it’s supply of lifesaving antibiotics.

“The crucial ingredients for nearly all antibiotics, steroids and many other lifesaving drugs are now made exclusively in China,” The New York Times reported in the 32nd paragraph of a Friday article entitled “Medicines made in India set off safety worries.”

Indeed, 2014 marks the tenth anniversary of Bristol-Myers Squibb — the last American plant that manufactured the key ingredients for penicillin and other drugs — shuttering it’s upstate New York factory.

“Like other manufacturing operations, drug plants have been moving to Asia because labor, construction, regulatory and environmental costs are lower there,” the Times reported in 2009.

As China has grown economically, it has also grown more bellicose.

Read more:

http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/17/report...or-antibiotics/

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Quote: Rev wrote in post #1

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The United States is nearly completely reliant on China for it’s supply of lifesaving antibiotics.

“The crucial ingredients for nearly all antibiotics, steroids and many other lifesaving drugs are now made exclusively in China,” The New York Times reported in the 32nd paragraph of a Friday article entitled “Medicines made in India set off safety worries.”
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Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #2

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Oh, by the way....

“The crucial ingredients for nearly all antibiotics, steroids and many other lifesaving drugs are now made exclusively in China,” The New York Times reported in the 32nd paragraph of a Friday article..."

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Don't those Chinamen have the spiffiest winter outfits, though?

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Don't those Chinamen have the spiffiest winter outfits, though?

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@Rev

almost forgot thanks for the link to:

Chinese Military Engaged in Political Warfare Against the United States
http://freebeacon.com/chinese-military-e...-united-states/

This is the first time I've seen Red China's Political war spelled out;

Zitat

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Contemporary PLA liaison work is influenced by Marxist-Leninist theory, tempered by traditional Chinese strategic culture, and informed by careful study of foreign political warfare experiences since World War II. While relatively significant in its scope and capabilities, political warfare is not unique to China.

. Political warfare seeks to influence emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals in a manner favorable to one’s own objectives.

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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #7

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Meh. Screw the Chinamen. I rely on Scotland for ALL my medicine....

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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #7

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Meh. Screw the Chinamen. I rely on Scotland for ALL my medicine....

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Frank,

That's a lot of antiseptic and pain killer

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