China has a death grip on our medical supplies and consequently our ability to survive. It is the sole manufacturer of one hundred medications we commonly use, including antibiotics and blood thinners, and is the largest supplier of nitrate gloves, masks, syringes and other medical equipment essential in hospitals.
China has threatened to weaponize its monopoly on these supplies to throw our hospitals into chaos, stress us in our death beds, and watch us suffer.
When your enemy issues a threat like that, believe it.
China’s state-run media publication, Xinhua, warned soon after the outbreak of COVID-19 that China might retaliate against Trump’s U.S. travel ban by banning the export of all medical products, adding that “the United States will fall into the hell of a new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic.”
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