Interview: ‘China RX’ Author Rosemary Gibson Sounds Alarm Over Chinese-Made Medicine

Chinese workers preparing to destroy fake medicines seized in Beijing, on March 14, 2013. Chinese companies are increasingly dominating the manufacturing of the global pharmaceutical market, a development that raises national security concerns in the United States and elsewhere. STR/AFP/Getty Images

Rosemary Gibson is a senior advisor at the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute, and is the author of numerous books investigating healthcare issues. Most recently she co-authored “China RX: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine,” with Janardan Prasad Singh, which documents what has led to China’s increasing dominance in the manufacturing of medicine and the many far-reaching consequences of this.

The Epoch Times: When did you start taking an interest in the U.S. dependence on China for pharmaceuticals? Are there other experts who’ve brought up the issue before your book came out this April?