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Mehta Analysis: China, A Populist Pharma Power

 
• By Viren Mehta

With money pouring into biopharma in China, and regulatory reforms favoring market growth and R&D speed, western firms should watch their backs, warns Viren Mehta, founding partner of Mehta Partners LLC.

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China's Pharma Dragon Is On Fire

The dollars and renminbi are adding up, as are structural and regulatory changes in China. With the modified IPO listing rules in Hong Kong, China’s momentum as a biopharma leader is accelerating. Even the Trump trade tirade seems to bypass many bold biopharma initiatives in China that have brought this nation into a leadership position in two short decades. (Also see "Can Pharmas Come Out Unscathed As China-US Trade War Escalates?" - Scrip, 11 April, 2018.)

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