Annika Kim Constantino highlights President Trump's new executive order targeting U.S. prescription drug prices through a "most favored nation" policy. Unlike previous efforts, this broad approach aims to align costs with lower prices from other countries, but raises concerns about profitability and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. Critics warn of potential legal battles and adverse market effects. Explore the details in the full article: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/12/trump-drug-pricing-order-most-favored-nation.html #DrugPricing #PharmaceuticalIndustry #TrumpAdministration #HealthcarePolicy #PrescriptionDrugs #MostFavoredNation

“For peace in our time, a Chinese dictatorship empowered with growing economy is in everybody's best interests...“

Paraphrasing US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo at #jinping's court. 🤷🏻‍♂️

ref: https://nitter.net/SariArhoHavren/status/1696379391666794957

#CCP #china #dictatorship #genocide #militaryexpansionism #GinaRaimondo #UnitedStates #NatSec #MFN #MostFavoredNation #coupling #entanglement #humanrights

☝️ Question to the #EUCommission: If the values enshrined in #UnitedNations (#humanrights) declarations are considered truly important, why are all the democracies financing, industrializing and otherwise empowering hostile #authoritarian regimes?

There are basically zero incentives for governments and elites of developing countries to choose #democracy over #authoritarianism... 👀

💥 Why not establish a global trading system where authoritarians and despots face serious tariffs and embargoes, and military-expansionist or even genocidal regimes actually face at least *some* real world consequences over their crimes? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Meanwhile trade and financial, industrial and technological assistance should be reserved for countries with at least *minimal* adherence to the most basic #UN ideals.

Why is this simple concept so difficult? Reward good, not evil.

Is it really hard to fathom *why* the post-1989 world rewarded greed over democratic values? In 1989, only months after the #TianAnMen massacre, trade delegations were queueing up to kowtow the #CCP #dictatorship... They got the message, as did #putler a decade later.

#WTO #MFN #MostFavoredNation #china #russia #AxisOfDespots #brics #SCO #EuropeanUnion #HandelOhneWandel
@EU_Commission

@gwaldby We need a #MostFavoredNation law.

These laws would require companies to sell their products in the US, at the lowest price that they sell them anywhere else in the world.