• Grippler@feddit.dk
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    5 months ago

    Maybe it’s my tinfoil hat that’s getting a bit tight here but…

    The Chinese are fighting an obesity epidemic like most of the western world, but they have to import all the GLP-1 drugs from companies outside China. They know this will cost a fortune, just look at the US with Novo’s ozempic/wegovy. But soon Eli Lilly will have a similar product on the market, and that will be the same for China. They’ll have to fork over billions to economic/political adversaries for these drugs, so they want to keep that under control. This is not because they care for anyone’s health and safety.