With a global pandemic and a fraught trade war, many are wondering if China’s pharmaceutical monopoly presents a national security threat.
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WASHINGTON — The baby had so many pustules ravaging his face he could barely open his right eye, a photograph that left the president, national security adviser and close aides nearly speechless with horror.
A global pandemic had begun in a hospital in Oklahoma City. Doctors soon diagnosed smallpox, a virulent, deadly and disfiguring infection that had disappeared from the planet two decades before. What would the president do?
This was the scenario that a cast of Washington power playe
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