A World Somewhat Redesigned
T he essential components of all medicine, active ingredients are chiefly manufactured in China and India, leaving Europe dependent on imports from the Far East. By no means a first-time development, recent restrictions on manufacturing and exports related to the pandemic, ‘zero COVID’ and other factors, have an immediate effect on supplies across the Old Continent. Bluntly put, patient access to some drugs is limited or outright non-existent.
In a similar scenario, Europe has until recently been well-nigh fully dependent on imports of cheap Russian resources: oil and gas. We are all well aware of how this has impacted the energy market and European economy – our experience of the issue having become even more visible given the current war in Ukraine.
Though the examples are abundant, can we truly imagine a situation in which Europe or the United States, driven by criteria that are purely economic in nature, would dismantle their own defence industry, ordering tanks, cannons, UAVs and aircraft, and all the necessary spare parts in China or Iran, for example? And while sharing with them all the technologies that are useful in the manufacturing of the most effective weapons, to make the symbiosis more complete and rewarding?
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