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China Exports Its Dubious Traditional Medicines

Opaque practices, superstitions abound

Our Correspondent
Nov 11, 2021
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China is engaged in a major effort to spread Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) throughout the world as a treatment for a wide variety of ailments, aimed at forming a health industry chain to offer business opportunities in the construction of Xi Jinping’s US$1 trillion-plus Belt and Road initiative. So far, 30 overseas centers have been established in …

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