U.S. restrictions on Chinese biotech could harm patients, argues editorial
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The Economist
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The article argues against U.S. efforts to restrict collaboration with China's biotechnology industry, framing it as an extension of the tech war that could harm patients. It highlights proposed legislation to amend the COINS Act to include Chinese biotech licensing, and calls to disregard Chinese clinical-trial data by the FDA. The core argument is that patients benefit from faster, cheaper treatments regardless of where they are invented.
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· 3 pulledSomeone whose life is saved by a new medicine is unlikely to care whether it was invented at home or on the other side of the world.
America's policymakers have begun treating China's biotechnology industry as the next front in the tech war.
Patients benefit from faster, cheaper treatments, wherever they are invented
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