Commentary
Democrats and Republicans battered TikTok’s CEO at a House of Representatives hearing on Thursday—for good reason. The Chinese app poses a national security risk, accumulating troves of data on its American users. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s slithery comment that “I don’t think spying is the right way to describe it,” only heightened concerns.
Too bad another Chinese threat—bigger and more immediate—isn’t getting the same attention. China has a chokehold on our medication supply chain. Beijing controls many—in some cases, all—active ingredients for the remedies in our medicine chests, the drugs used in emergency rooms and even antibiotics administered to soldiers on the battlefield….