Chinese State-Run Agency Reportedly Threatened China Could Withhold Lifesaving Drugs From U.S. Tom Cotton Has Bill That Would End U.S. Dependency On China.

Noting that a Chinese Communist Party state-run media agency  reportedly stated that Beijing could “announce strategic control over medical products and ban exports to the United States. Then, the United States will be caught in the ocean of new coronaviruses,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) will introduce the Protecting our Pharmaceutical Supply Chain from China Act on Thursday to protect the United States from dependence on China for pharmaceuticals.

Cotton’s website notes that the bill will: