A couple of articles to ponder, ........While the USA is taking steps to reduce the dependency for foreign supplies, the UK is sending £71.000.000 aid to China
Better known for making cameras, Kodak has moved into drug making and has just secured a $765m (£592m) loan from the US government.
The fallen giant of the photography industry will make ingredients used in generic drugs to help fight the coronavirus.
Announcing the loan, the US government said it wanted to reduce dependency on foreign countries for medical supplies.
"If we have learned anything from the global pandemic, it is that Americans are dangerously dependent on foreign supply chains for their essential medicines,"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53563601Dominic Raab is to slash aid money to China following outcry over a £71 million package sent to the world’s second-largest economy in a single year.The UK aid money sent to China was also used to train Chinese citizens to use technology, helping it settle business disputes, urging it to “support human rights” and to qualify teachers.
Millions were also given to the China prosperity fund, which gives money to schemes that “address market failures and weaknesses that impede China’s inclusive economic growth”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/foreign-aid-money-china-dominic-raab-a4506646.html