zh-cn	编者按：自新冠肺炎疫情在美国爆发以来，美国国内要求减少对中国药品和物资依赖的呼声愈发高涨。
en-us	Editor's note: Calls for reducing dependency on China for medicines and supplies have grown louder since COVID-19 broke out on U.S. soil. 

zh-cn	一些美国领导者认为，国际供应链的中断反映了全球化的危险性。
en-us	To some American leaders, the disruption in the global supply chain became an explanation for the danger of globalization. 

zh-cn	CGTN制作了新一期数说节目，对这种思想进行分析并探讨其合理性。 
en-us	CGTN presents a new episode of Data Speaks to break down this particular ideology and explore its validity. 

zh-cn	美国是否应该在医疗上更加自给自足？很多美国位高权重的政客认为答案是肯定的。
en-us	Should the U.S. be more medically self-reliant? Many prominent American politicians believe the answer is "Yes." 

zh-cn	为什么呢？因为美国在医疗用品供应上“过于依赖”中国。 
en-us	Why? Because the U.S. is "overdependent" on China for its medical supply. 

zh-cn	意外么？ 
en-us	Surprise, surprise. 

zh-cn	受新冠肺炎疫情影响，美国对医疗资源的需求激增。
en-us	The U.S.' demand of medical resources is surging due to COVID-19. 

zh-cn	有舆论称中国会借此机会要挟美国。
en-us	There's a narrative that China would use this as an opportunity to strong-arm the United States. 

zh-cn	对于过度依赖的恐惧并非来源于所需医疗资源的数量大，而是出于对中国意图的担忧。 
en-us	The overdependency is feared not because of the number, but because of China's intentions. 

zh-cn	彼得森国际经济研究所的查得·布朗进行的一项研究显示，
en-us	According to a study by Chad Brown at Peterson Institute for International Economics, 

zh-cn	在贸易战之前，美国对重要抗疫产品的关税维持在较低水平。
en-us	before the trade war, the U.S. kept relatively low tariffs on goods that are crucial to combat COVID-19 today. 

zh-cn	每年，美国从中国进口价值约50亿美元的相关产品，占美国医疗产品进口总额的26%。 
en-us	Each year, the U.S. imported 5 billion dollars of these products from China, roughly 26 percent of all U.S. medical imports. 

zh-cn	然而，在进口来源多样化方面，关税的作用有限。
en-us	However, the tariffs only diversified sources of import to a certain extent. 

zh-cn	布朗的研究显示，2019年，在16类抗击新冠肺炎疫情的核心产品中，仅有6类产品对华进口额的增长率出现负值。
en-us	Brown's study shows that out of the 16 categories of goods that are considered essential to COVID-19, tariffs only caused six to experience negative U.S. import value growth rate in 2019. 

zh-cn	其余10类商品的对华进口额仍在加速增长。 
en-us	Ten of these U.S. imports from China were still growing. 

zh-cn	在这10类当中，4类产品的对华进口增速高于对世界其他地区的进口增速。
en-us	And out of the 10, four imports experienced higher growth rates from China than from the rest of the world. 

zh-cn	美国对中国的X光设备、乳胶无菌手套、呼吸机、氧气面罩、喷雾器和呼吸面罩等产品的进口率大大增加。 
en-us	Products like X-ray equipment, nitrile, and sterile gloves, ventilators, oxygen masks, nebulizers and breathing masks were imported into the United States from China at a far greater rate. 

zh-cn	事实上，想要“自给自足”并不是仅仅把工厂挪回本土那么简单的事。
en-us	The fact is that bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. isn't just picking up and dropping a factory onto American soil. 

zh-cn	美国缺乏大规模生产某些设备所必须的供应链和制造能力。 
en-us	The U.S. simply lacks the necessary supply chain and manufacturing capability to produce some of the equipment on a massive scale. 

zh-cn	以呼吸机为例。
en-us	Take ventilators as an example. 

zh-cn	呼吸机是美国对华进口增速超过对其他国家进口增速的产品之一。
en-us	Ventilators are one of the items that the U.S. has imported from China at a higher rate than other countries. 

zh-cn	中国国内领先的设备供应商和买家对接平台贝登医疗的供应链总监吴传普指出，
en-us	Wu Chuanpu, director of the supply chain at Vedeng.com, a leading platform in China connecting medical equipment suppliers and buyers, 

zh-cn	扩大呼吸机生产线非常耗时，而且对资源依赖程度高，此外还涉及到人员培训的问题。这个过程极其复杂。 
en-us	said that "the expansion of the (ventilator) production line is very time-consuming and resource-intensive," adding that it also involves personnel training and that it's too cumbersome. 

zh-cn	《纽约时报》3月29日的一篇报道称，美国公共卫生官员13年前曾为解决国内呼吸机短缺的问题起草过一份计划。
en-us	According to a New York Times' March 29 report, U.S. public health officials drafted a plan 13 years ago to address the shortage of ventilators in the country. 

zh-cn	但在承包呼吸机设计的公司被另一家公司收购之后，该计划就不了了之了。
en-us	The plan failed after a company contracted to design the machine was bought by another company. 

zh-cn	也就是说没有生产出任何呼吸机。 
en-us	Meaning zero ventilators were produced. 

zh-cn	据估计，该计划的失败将美国呼吸机的研发推迟了至少5年。
en-us	It is estimated that the failure delayed the machine's development in the U.S. by at least half a decade. 

zh-cn	美国政府直到2014年才重新考虑这个问题，2019年才通过审批，至今未交付任何实际产品。 
en-us	The government only revisited this in 2014. But, it wasn't until 2019 when the ventilator was approved. No actual products have been delivered yet. 

zh-cn	在新冠肺炎疫情期间，美国呼吸机的数量和价格对其抗疫都没能产生任何积极作用。
en-us	Both the number and the price of ventilators haven't helped the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

zh-cn	据报道，位于休斯顿的承包商大卫·洛利斯以1300万美元出售了200台呼吸机。
en-us	It is reported that a Houston-based contractor, David Lolis, sold 200 ventilators for 13 million dollars. 

zh-cn	这意味着每台机器的价格约为65000美元。
en-us	This means each machine had a price tag of about 65,000 dollars. 

zh-cn	而纽约州则以每台25000美元的价格从中国成功购买了17000台呼吸机。 
en-us	New York State has been able to secure 17,000 ventilators from China at 25,000 dollars apiece. 

zh-cn	中国是美国医疗物资的一个很重要的供应国吗？是的。
en-us	Is China a major supplier of U.S. medical resources? Yes. 

zh-cn	中国需要为美国对这些物资的依赖负责吗？除非有人认为奋发上进是错的，否则答案就是“不需要”。
en-us	Is China responsible for the U.S.' dependency on these supplies? Only if one believes that trying to get ahead is wrong. 

zh-cn	如果成本收益之比对美国有利，企业和制造商自然会选择美国。
en-us	If the cost-benefit equation works out in the U.S.' favor, companies and manufactures would naturally choose the U.S. 

zh-cn	但在此之前，医疗脱钩可能并不明智
en-us	But until then, medical decoupling might not be such a great idea.