Is this legit? US hospitals gets 50% of their medical supplies and 91% of medications from China? Does anyone know if this claim has any grounds?
Like, if this was true then Trump was right, he is most certainly winning and winning so much that Americans will be asking for him to stop winning so much!
Wow! It's almost as if someone called this a while back. Oh wait, I did just that!
A critical vulerability in modern industrial systems is the "just-in-time" logistics scheme. Minimal input stockpiles are maintained and replacement parts for maintenance are ordered when required. A disruption to either of these and industrial systems will literally tear themselves apart, crippling the entire chain. Failures will cascade to tangential and downstream systems. Pharmaceuticals, energy, manufacturing are all sectors that implement JIT logistics for efficiency. With enough disruption, the US suddenly finds itself in pre-industrial era quality of life. Guess where these inputs and replacement components come from?