On July 5, 2025, an X user claimed that China has found the cure for diabetes and that the United States is not happy about it. This claim was posted with a cover template design from TechTimes containing Trump’s picture and blood glucose meter with the words, “CHINA MAY HAVE FOUND THE CURE FOR DIABETES AND THE U.S ARE NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT.”
The X post was captioned, ‘Someone Please Explain it to me Why USA is not happy about This?’ At the time this report was published, the post had over 1,270 views with about 40 replies, reposts, quotes, likes and bookmarks. In the comment section, @Emmanuelhulk443 wrote,“Your source?”
VERIFICATION
N-VA search for articles from TechTimes, related to keywords in the claim led to a Reddit page from a year ago titled, ‘Communist China Just Cured Diabetes and America’s Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it.’ The page posted a link to a Medium article of the same title published on June 2, 2024.
A deep dive into this revealed a research report published in Cell Discovery in April 2024 which detailed treating a type 2 diabetic patient with impaired pancreatic islet function by personalised endoderm stem cell-derived islet tissue.
Source: Nature.com
NDTV reported that Professor Timothy Kieffer, a researcher at the University of British Columbia, called it “an important advance in the field,” but said there is need for further large-scale trials to confirm the efficacy and safety of this approach before it can be widely used as a treatment.
In September 2024, Chinese researchers from Tianjin and Peking University published a case of a 25‑year‑old woman with type 1 diabetes who became insulin‑independent about 75 days after receiving stem‑cell‑derived islet transplants; she remained off insulin for at least a year.
These are individual case studies or early-phase trials, and there is no public confirmation that the treatment has been replicated in large, long-term clinical trials. Leading science outlets like Labiotech states that there is no widely approved cure for diabetes yet and these stem-cell approaches remain experimental.
Is The U.S Unhappy About This Breakthrough?
NV-A conducted keyword searches on the claim that the U.S. is unhappy with China over the discovery of a breakthrough diabetes cure. The researcher did not come across any factual documents or news reports on the U.S. government and its regulators actively opposing or seeking to block Chinese medical discoveries. Although, there is still a brewing trade war between the two countries.
CONCLUSION
The claim that China may have found the cure for diabetes and that the U.S is not happy with this discovery is MISLEADING. Findings revealed that there is no one-time cure applicable to all those with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and the treatment discovered by China is still being researched. Also, there is no evidence to confirm that the United States is unhappy about the discovery.
On July 5, 2025, an X user claimed that China has found the cure for diabetes and that the United States is not happy about it. This claim was posted with a cover template design from TechTimes containing Trump’s picture and blood glucose meter with the words, “CHINA MAY HAVE FOUND THE CURE FOR DIABETES AND THE U.S ARE NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT.”
The X post was captioned, ‘Someone Please Explain it to me Why USA is not happy about This?’ At the time this report was published, the post had over 1,270 views with about 40 replies, reposts, quotes, likes and bookmarks. In the comment section, @Emmanuelhulk443 wrote,“Your source?”
VERIFICATION
N-VA search for articles from TechTimes, related to keywords in the claim led to a Reddit page from a year ago titled, ‘Communist China Just Cured Diabetes and America’s Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it.’ The page posted a link to a Medium article of the same title published on June 2, 2024.
A deep dive into this revealed a research report published in Cell Discovery in April 2024 which detailed treating a type 2 diabetic patient with impaired pancreatic islet function by personalised endoderm stem cell-derived islet tissue.
Source: Nature.com
NDTV reported that Professor Timothy Kieffer, a researcher at the University of British Columbia, called it “an important advance in the field,” but said there is need for further large-scale trials to confirm the efficacy and safety of this approach before it can be widely used as a treatment.
In September 2024, Chinese researchers from Tianjin and Peking University published a case of a 25‑year‑old woman with type 1 diabetes who became insulin‑independent about 75 days after receiving stem‑cell‑derived islet transplants; she remained off insulin for at least a year.
These are individual case studies or early-phase trials, and there is no public confirmation that the treatment has been replicated in large, long-term clinical trials. Leading science outlets like Labiotech states that there is no widely approved cure for diabetes yet and these stem-cell approaches remain experimental.
Is The U.S Unhappy About This Breakthrough?
NV-A conducted keyword searches on the claim that the U.S. is unhappy with China over the discovery of a breakthrough diabetes cure. The researcher did not come across any factual documents or news reports on the U.S. government and its regulators actively opposing or seeking to block Chinese medical discoveries. Although, there is still a brewing trade war between the two countries.
CONCLUSION
The claim that China may have found the cure for diabetes and that the U.S is not happy with this discovery is MISLEADING. Findings revealed that there is no one-time cure applicable to all those with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and the treatment discovered by China is still being researched. Also, there is no evidence to confirm that the United States is unhappy about the discovery.
