please join in marketing rosemary gibson. [applause] er for now backs is the microphone working okay, wonderful. thank you gentlemen and ladies. good afternoon everyone. doctor goldman, i want to thank you for making this event possible. it is a very timely and it is fitting that we are sitting here at school of health in the nations capital to discuss the public health implications as well as the national security risks associated in the growing dependence on a single country for our madison. it's timely for another reason. the president is safe to give a major speech in the coming days and weeks about the drug prices. we know many americans are suffering under the burden of the high cost of medicine. but we have to be mindful of unintended consequences. companies might feel pressured to reduce the prices and reduce their cost which could potentially drive more manufacturing to china subject to keep a close eye. there's one lesson we draw from today it's the intersection of the medicine and trade and trade policy and who wou

we have an author and incredibly important book here, rosemary gibson. her book explores the topic of a dramatic shift b in where our medicines come from. as china looks at the pharmacy of the world and many of us in the medical public health profession have been unaware of this shift. we may notice at times there are shortages that they

we have an author and incredibly important book here, rosemary gibson. her book explores the topic of a dramatic shift b in where our medicines come from. as china looks at the pharmacy of the world and many of us in the medical public health profession have been unaware of this shift. we may notice at times there are shortages that they are contamination issues and other problems but i think we have not been aware that there has been this systematic issue, a major change in the system that manufacturing and deliver pharmaceuticals. the implications of one country controlling the supply of medicine is astounding, no matter what state we are talking about. think aboutng it. what if there is a global pandemic and it is hard tot' loe move products across the world. what if there are heightenedns tensions within the south china sea and everyone could be vulnerable and everyone could be put at risk. the role of the fda in this situation cannot be overstated because the fda cannot be effective in ensuring the safety of the medicines in the far-flung regions of

-china trade relations actio gave china normal trade status, which means rosemary gibson, who we hadn the show, details how that piece of legislation opened the floodgates for chinese drug imports. than three years of the bill passing, america lost its last aspirin factories, last vitamin c facility, last penicillin plant. our ability to make critically vital antibiotics in this country vanished, and that was a serious blow to our national security. andni yet, joe biden voted for that bill. he went on to oppose amendments to it that would have put pressure on china to release political parishioners and stop forced abortions. p years later, in 2011, biden still didn't see the threat and appeared to welcome it. he said "a rising china is a positive development, not only for china, before america." the dave biden gave that speech, millions of americans had already lost their jobs, shipped overseas to china, chinese students flooding americanamerica'sschools and re, crowding out americans, and in the end, boost the chinese economy to where it stands today, larger than ours. hard to belie