We Are Family: Why Recent Deals Show China And US Won’t Part Long

Recent deals linking Chinese and foreign firms indicate new and bolder views on China’s prospects for cutting-edge oncology and rare disease treatments, helped by recent regulatory changes, but a mix of factors is still at play, veteran executives say.

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China and US get closer in biotech deal-making

Out of 82 innovative new drugs under development in China, half of them have been filed by multinational drug makers and the other half by the so-called “thousand talents”, most of them overseas returnees to local companies.

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