{"id":38209,"date":"2020-02-17T08:46:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38209"},"modified":"2020-02-17T08:46:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T13:46:29","slug":"the-obvious-is-sometimes-overlooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38209","title":{"rendered":"The Obvious Is Sometimes Overlooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Frank Gaffney, Jr., posted an article at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org\/2020\/02\/14\/america-first-requires-self-sufficiency-in-medicine-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Security Policy<\/a> about America&#8217;s dependence on China for the manufacturing of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Communist China has been waging \u201cunrestricted warfare\u201d against this country for decades. One of its most devastating lines of attack in that war has been the hollowing out of America\u2019s industrial base.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A stupefying case in point is the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s success in destroying our nation\u2019s capacity to manufacture prescription drugs \u2013 to the point where we are virtually completely dependent on China for our medicines.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A recent poll of likely voters found that 83% were concerned about such a dependency. 76% worried that China may cut off the supply, devastating our health care system and people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Rosemary Gibson, the co-author of\u00a0<em>China Rx<\/em>, has warned about such a scenario for years. Now, in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, it is upon us. We need immediately to heed Ms. Gibson\u2019s call urgently to reconstitute an America First drug manufacturing capability.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have achieved energy independence which has increased our influence around the world. Now it is time to achieve drug independence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Frank Gaffney, Jr., posted an article at the Center for Security Policy about America&#8217;s dependence on China for the manufacturing of drugs. The article reports: Communist China has been waging \u201cunrestricted warfare\u201d against this country for decades. One &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1614,4618,6997,2169,232,2710,197,8414],"class_list":["post-38209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-center-for-security-policy","tag-communist-china","tag-drugs","tag-frank-gaffney","tag-health-care","tag-manufacturing","tag-medicine","tag-prescription-drug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38210,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38209\/revisions\/38210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}