Beijing’s Control of the Global Pharmaceutical Market

With David Goldman, Rosemary Gibson, Vice Adm. Robert Monroe and Bill Gertz

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author of How Civilizations Die, Best known for his series of essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler:

• Trump’s press conference on China’s 2025 aims
• National security implications of Beijing’s control of 5G technology

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

• How manufacturing of prescription drugs moved East
• The health, economic and national security risks of China’s control of pharmaceuticals

VICE ADM. ROBERT MONROE, U.S. NAVY (Ret.), Rear Admiral in U.S. Navy, commanded South Atlantic Force; U.S. Atlantic Fleet; directed Navy Systems Analysis and commanded Navy’s Operational Test and Evaluation Force, Director of the Defense Nuclear Agency from 1977 to 1980:

• Why maintaining our nuclear deterrence is critical
• The condition of our physical capacity to support nuclear weapon testing

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age (2016):

• Defense Secretary Mattis to remain at Pentagon
• Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of AI technologies