Since US President Donald Trump – just days into his second term – began imposing tariffs on China for its role in the flow of deadly opioids like fentanyl into the United States, Beijing’s message ...

THE FIGHT against fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is at the heart of America and China’s uneasy trade-war truce. The drug has killed more than 300,000 Americans since 2020 and related overdoses are the ...

China quietly became biotech’s back-office, from molecule synthesis and clinical trials to novel drug licensing. Now the industry—and Washington—are rethinking the risks.

In a major crackdown, border officials in the United States stopped a shipment of over 50,000 kilograms of chemical ingredients used to make illegal drugs. These chemicals came from China and were ...

It’s the most prescribed antibiotic in the United States, used by tens of millions of people every year to treat bacterial infections including pneumonia, stomach ulcers, and strep throat. Yet, it isn ...

Behind the scenes, major pharmaceutical companies and Trump-tied billionaires are furiously lobbying in opposite directions over proposed anti-China measures. By Rob Copeland and Rebecca Robbins Rob ...

A hand holds up a tamper-safe orange bottle filled with oblong white pills against a red-tinted background of Chinese yuan. As China’s biopharmaceutical industry churns out more innovative molecules, ...