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India does a lot of steel, but especially medicine, which suffers from the same problem.

Here in Germany, we're lacking cough syrup and antibiotics for children and so fucking much more drugs it's not even suitable for making jokes about the situation, it's so dire. Decades of "cutting costs" by always going for the cheapest manufacturer - i.e. China and India - has led to serious issues now.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/health-ministry-confronts-germanys-dir...

[2] https://www.deutsche-apotheker-zeitung.de/daz-az/2021/daz-30...



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