With Rosemary Gibson

ROSEMARY GIBSON, Author of China Rx: Exposing the Risk of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine and Senior Advisor for the Hastings Center:

• The degree to which American citizens depend on medication

(PART TWO):

• Loss of production capabilities in the U.S. for penicillin, aspirin and Vitamin C
• How the investment of billions of dollars in research and development in China assures future supply chain dominance
• American companies’ willing wholesale transfer of intellectual property to Beijing
• What is mechanism for FDA to assess and approve drugs manufactured outside the country?

(PART THREE):

• How the “practice of deception” led to blood pressure medication infected with carcinogens
• U.S. Military reliance on China for medical supplies
• How China is trying to legitimize cartels through the U.S. court system
• Disturbing pattern evident in several industries of state-sponsored and supported criminal cartels disrupting, dominating and displacing the most important American industrial sectors

(PART FOUR):

• What the average American can do to protect themselves
• Steps the government can take to avoid drug shortages, protect the U.S. military and civilians, and diversify the drug supplier base