{"id":102939,"date":"2020-02-27T10:23:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T18:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/expert-china-has-global-chokehold-on-medicine-can-shut-down-our-pharmacies-hospitals-in-months"},"modified":"2020-02-27T10:23:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T18:23:35","slug":"expert-china-has-global-chokehold-on-medicine-can-shut-down-our-pharmacies-hospitals-in-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/expert-china-has-global-chokehold-on-medicine-can-shut-down-our-pharmacies-hospitals-in-months","title":{"rendered":"Expert: China Has \u2018Global Chokehold\u2019 on Medicine, Can Shut Down Our Pharmacies, Hospitals in Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/expert-china-has-global-chokehold-on-medicine-can-shut-down-our-pharmacies-hospitals-in-months.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China could effectively shut down America\u2019s healthcare system within months given the one-party state\u2019s \u201cglobal chokehold\u201d on the manufacturing of medicines and medical supplies, explained Rosemary Gibson, author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/China-Rx-Exposing-Americas-Dependence\/dp\/1633883817?tag=lifeboatfound-20\"> China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America\u2019s Dependence on China for Medicine.<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehastingscenter.org\/team\/rosemary-gibson\/\">Gibson, senior adviser<\/a> at the Hastings Center, offered her remarks on Thursday\u2019s edition of SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Tonight<\/em> with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Ed Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Mansour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/02\/13\/coronavirus-outbreak-exposes-chinas-monopoly-on-u-s-drug-medical-supplies\/\">noted<\/a> how the coronavirus outbreak in China has exposed America\u2019s dangerous dependence on Chinese production of pharmaceutical and medical supplies, including an estimated 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed for domestic drug production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China could effectively shut down America\u2019s healthcare system within months given the one-party state\u2019s \u201cglobal chokehold\u201d on the manufacturing of medicines and medical supplies, explained Rosemary Gibson, author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America\u2019s Dependence on China for Medicine. Gibson, senior adviser at the Hastings Center, offered her remarks on Thursday\u2019s edition of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}