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America's massive market for biotech doesn't lead to good results in life expectancy. American life expectancy (79) than Cuban or Iranian life expectancy (both 78). Cuba and Iran are entirely embargoed from supposedly cutting-edge pharmaceutical drugs; yet I bet the average Cuban is healthier than the average American.

Judging by the ultimate measure of effectiveness - I'm just not sure how much China would lose from biotech sanctions.

Enestori said:

America's massive market for biotech doesn't lead to good results in life expectancy. American life expectancy (79)

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than Cuban or Iranian life expectancy (both 78). Cuba and Iran are entirely embargoed from supposedly cutting-edge pharmaceutical drugs; yet I bet the average Cuban is healthier than the average American.

Judging by the ultimate measure of effectiveness - I'm just not sure how much China would lose from biotech sanctions.

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Life expectancy of the general population is highly correlated with the quality of public healthcare services and is hardly correlated with the level of leading-edge biopharma tech capabilities. Of course the US biopharma lobby only made their healthcare system even less efficient. Anyway China has become almost self-sufficient and increasingly competitive in both biomed and medical devices, so sanctions against these industries would not affect their tech development/advancement per se. But sanctions will affect their revenue in the us market and maybe western markets in general.
As for the biopharma market size comparison between the us and China, my prediction is China will in the near future surpass the us in market volume but remain behind the us in market value. The same drug in the us costs many times more than in China. Similar situation in medical devices.

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jnd85 said:

If I am not mistaken, it is cheaper to transport data by HDD rather than using cable to almost anywhere - in the short run. It is just a matter of what your unit of time is.

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Logistics is all distance and volume. Disk transfer needs a particular volume to warrant the energy expended in physically getting them to a location. I doubt it is very economical to fly one disk's worth of data cross country.