August 15, 2025 03:05 AM GMT China Healthcare | Asia Pacific M Update Thoughts on President Trump's New EO on API Supply Chain Key Takeaways US strategic stockpiling of critical medicines goes back to the early days of Covid, i.e., President Trump's first term: Demand for essential medicines surged around the world during Covid (antibiotics, anti-coagulants), causing the West to depend on China, the world's biggest producer of APIs, for supply. In 2020, the stockpiling program identified heparin as critical ...