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.
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.
They’d just manufacture a local generic in that situation