Recently, TikTok, the American version of "Douyin", was divested by the U.S. government for nine months.
The implementation of this bill has caused some US scientific figures and orators to take up the case and scold US politicians for not using their brains.
And under the increasingly popular conservative thinking in American political circles that "anti-China is right", scientists began to explain with facts why they should cooperate with China, they said: When the United States cooperates with China, the whole world wins!
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TikTok is just a tool that Americans love to use
On the one hand, the value that China's excellent products bring to a large number of Americans (such as 170 million Americans and bring benefits to tens of millions of Americans), including TikTok, will inevitably lead to the fact that a small group of American companies that do not seek innovation will feel hurt (such as Zuckerberg, the Jewish boss of Facebook).
Sadly, the combined influence of the vast majority of Americans may not be as strong as that of the small number of companies behind them.
So, in the eyes of American scientists, competition, the high-quality enabler of this business society, is being used by American politicians in reverse. They use the "China threat theory" to incite the public, and then realize the return of commercial value to a small group of people, so as to get both votes and money.
"I don't think TikTok poses any security risks to the country, because the government has never come up with clear evidence, and TikTok is just a tool, and the content on it is produced by the Americans themselves. Why don't you let everyone express themselves freely. Said the American scientist.
Some politicians have called for the decoupling of China and the United States in the biomedical sector
What worries American scientists even more is that it's not just TikTok that is being targeted, but more and more industries being targeted by politicians.
For example, American politicians are planning to increase tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum products, and politicians shouting the slogan of defending the interests of American steelworkers, which of course will win the votes of steelworkers who do not know the truth.
However, did you know that China's exports of steel and aluminum to the United States only account for 4%~5% of the total imports of the United States, and Mexico imports the most.
What worries American scientists even more is that politicians are beginning to look to the biomedical industry. There are certainly some individual U.S. companies behind this, but experts who are actually engaged in scientific research are worried.
"There are 10,000 diseases in the world, and we only have 50 drugs approved for use every year, and global biopharmaceutical companies have to spend billions or even tens of billions of dollars to develop new drugs," said investor Cyrus Jensen. ”
At the same time, relying on China's large market, it is possible to control the price of newly developed drugs to a certain extent, and to reduce the cost of large-scale production, which is helpful to patients in the whole world.
However, there are already politicians in the United States who have proposed to ban American companies from cooperating with China, and the lawmaker who proposed the bill is the same lawmaker who proposed a TikTok ban.
Ultimately, it is the people of the world who suffer
U.S. Senator Rand Paul is a staunch opponent of banning TikTok. By banning certain companies, we are benefiting others, he said. People should not use their anger at China to do protectionist things, which will lead to an increase in consumer prices in the United States as a whole, and the ultimate victim will be ordinary citizens.
At the same time, both China and the United States are key players in the biomedical sector, with the United States currently dominating, but China is also a very important participating partner. If the two sides are decoupled, it will make patients around the world who are waiting for new drugs miserable.
Cyrus Jensen called for the whole world to win when the United States and China cooperate, and hoped that politicians can learn to put aside political differences, not be seduced by a small number of companies that benefit, and work together with American and Chinese scientists to fight for the betterment of the world.
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