How the essential farma became nearly 100% reliant on foreign manufacturers is I think the most exemplary case of this nonsense.

I read some year ago that there were laws in US which at least somehow discouraged the pharma from shipping manufacturing abroad, and it was the big pharma itself which lobbied these laws out.

This is how China held US at gunpoint in the early days of COVID — "Stay put, or we pull 90%+ of your antibiotics supply"