TLDR · MISCELLANEOUS
WILL ALL OUR DRUGS COME FROM CHINA?
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The West's big car manufacturers are facing an existential threat from Chinese manufacturers, which relatively recently began pushing the boundaries of performance, cost-efficiency, driver experience, and autonomy. Western carmakers have been content to innovate in a gradual way for far too long, and it could cease to be competitive. This could also happen to the biotech industry. There has been a steady rise in Chinese companies as a source of genuinely new drugs. Chinese companies are now responsible for about a quarter of new trial starts.