For thousands of units making bulk drugs, or raw materials used to make medicines, there is hardly any incentive to be in the business. As they lose ground to an aggressive Chinese campaign to dump cheaper substitutes, there are multiple issues causing more damage – half-hearted policymaking, a myopic user industry that falls for the cheaper options and shrewd price manoeuvring.
Chinese encroachments in Bhutan involves construction of three villages, 66 miles of linking roads, and at least five military or police outposts on land understood for centuries to be within Bhutan.
Forty years of population policy in China: A timeline
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Last Updated: May 31, 2021, 04:52 PM IST
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The decades under one-child rule led to under-reporting of female births, as well as a high rate of abortions of female foetuses, skewing the sex ratio. But the results were dramatic, with fertility rates falling from 5.9 births per woman in 1970 to about 1.6 in the late 1990s.
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Here is a timeline of the country s evolving family planning policy.
In 1979, China imposed a policy forcing couples to have only one baby, introduced by top leader Deng Xiaoping to curb population growth and boost economic development.
He said: "The relationship right now is going through a very difficult phase, because in violation of agreements and understandings of many, many years the Chinese have deployed a very large part of their military on and close to the Line of Actual Control without explanation.