So then there is no need to cry because China is producing the base material for everybody.
You can get anything made in China to any precision you desire and any quantity. You will have to pay for it like anything else. China could be either ally or foe depending on their form of government. Today, they are foe. Their government is hostile to both the US and their own people.
They would be unbeatable commercially if they had a government by her people for her people.
the problem is you might well find a factory and owner that can do your job but one day the staff will substitute something and you will be crying.
Internally the Chinese dont trust a chinese product as they know what they would do to make more profit, very hard to convert that mentality to make products but common to have export quality and internal quality
Happens on small and large things, steel for stainless, bolts made from biscuits etc…
You’re kidding, right?
I meant China manufactures medical supplies. It wasn’t meant to be specific for Covid. If in some things, it has changed tremendously, in others it has not.
Yes, I agree the author was exaggerating with that statement.
Basic material for many medical tools is plastic. Gloves, masks, feet covers, tubes, etc. All one use and discard type stuff is basically plastic. Some paper. Then the reusable stuff is steel. Medicines are wrapped in plastic.
So manufacturers of plastic medical supplies are loving it, and most are located in China.
A little Wikipedia: " Medical gloves are made of different polymers including latex, nitrile rubber, polyvinyl chloride and neoprene; they come unpowdered, or powdered with corn starch to lubricate the gloves, making them easier to put on the hands."
And since plastic factories in the US are not welcome, this means the stuff is made elsewhere and imported in big ships.
I thought you were talking about medicine and the ingredients that goes into making them.
China and India are the main manufacturers of medicine for the world, but even India is dependent on China for a lot of the ingredient’s that is use in it’s pharmaceutical industry, as is the rest of the world:
Thank you for the link.
The US can avoid importing vitamins because vitamins are in food. If the US switches from growing nutritionally-void food to fully organic/non-GMO regenerative agriculture production (I’m a broken agricultural record) you won’t need vitamins made in China… 
Understanding China comes with understanding ourselves first. Why dependent on a foreign country for something so basic? I mean every country, not just US.
Low value add, dirty polluting industries have always been exported.
Growing economies have always taken those onboard.
But when it comes to essential medical supplies (including pharmaceuticals) I don’t think they’re low value.
sure, what I was saying is China is making the ingredients for everyone
without any intellectual property protection why would a chinese firm spend all that time and money on actually creating drugs?
The question should be: Why aren’t countries making sure their health is secure by producing ingredients and the medicines themselves? Sure they could import the little plastic bottles from South East Asia, but the medicines should be made in the country.
I recall one American robotics company specializing in pharmaceuticals being sold to China. That’s not manufacturing ingredients. That’s controlling the whole production. And stock market players make a lot of money out of this arrangement.
SE asia is just a cheap labour factory ( no human rights, no EPA etc lots of financial advantages over the west), there is no other value add at all.
What is keeping you in such an awful place?
You should get out before you get contaminated with stupidity from the people around you.
China is gaining in the weapons race, or is it??:
Which is my objection to so called trade with China. It is one thing to compete against people who may work smarter or harder.
It is simply not viable to compete against people who work by different rules.
I am never in favour of protctionism and tariffs to inhibit competition, but I see a good argument in favour of levelling tarrifs designed and implementd to compensate for lack of health and safety, social welfare, environmental protection etc.
and stole all your intellectual property, make it cheaper and sell it back to your customers.
The world is still waiting for a chinese tech invention…
“The world” is waiting for you to get into the 21st Century.
must put me in front of China whose last great inventions we all use even today are more than 1000 years old or have I missed something?
A lot!!!