Category: Vaccine
If China’s Vaccine Rollout Is the New Normal, What Was the Old Normal?
It's true, if redundant, to point out that if 2020 was the year of COVID-19, 2021 is shaping up as year of the vaccine. Like every aspect of the pandemic, the vaccine rollout acts like an x-ray, revealing the bones of ...
The China-Africa Vaccine Air Bridge is Open
A specially modified Ethiopian Airlines jet landed in Addis Ababa on Saturday from Beijing marking the beginning of the new air bridge linking China and Africa to deliver millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines. The vaccine shipment on this particular flight transited through ...
Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama: “We Will Need China For Vaccines”
Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama confirmed on Friday that talks are underway with China to secure large quantities of COVID-19 vaccines. Until recently Nigeria has fared relatively well in terms of infections but now it appears that new variants of the virus are spreading faster. ...
China’s Winning the Vaccine Optics Battle
68 days is all it took for Ethiopian Airlines and Alibaba's logistics division Cainiao to build a new air bridge between China and Africa that will ferry vaccines through distribution hubs in Addis Ababa and Dubai. The first flight landed on ...
China & The Geopolitics of COVID Vaccines in Africa
COVID-19 vaccines are finally starting to make their way to the world's poorest countries as production of Chinese, Russian and Indian jabs ramps up. But it's the large-scale distribution of Chinese vaccines that's causing a lot of people around the world, ...
China Donates 10 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine to the Global Covax Alliance
China took a big step on Wednesday to expand its global vaccine donation drive with a sizable contribution to the global vaccine alliance known as Covax. The Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Beijing would provide the alliance with 10 million doses from three of China's largest ...
South Africa Received Its First Vaccine Shipment This Week But Critics Are Blasting the President For Not Buying Chinese and Russian Jabs
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa personally went to Johannesburg OR Tambo International Airport late Monday night to witness the off-loading of 1 million COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccines that arrived from the Serum Institute of India (SII). While there's no doubt relief that vaccines ...
Zimbabwe To Get Chinese C19 Vaccines, Says Ambassador. When? Well, That’s TBD.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin's inclusion of Zimbabwe in a list of 14 developing countries that would have early access to Chinese COVID-19 vaccines was reaffirmed by Beijing's envoy to Harare on Tuesday. Not surprisingly, the announcement caused quite a bit of excitement in ...
China Brushes Aside Criticism of Its Vaccine Distribution, Says Its Fulfilling President Xi Jinping’s Promise to Make Jabs a “Global Public Good”
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin parried any critique of Beijing's vaccine distribution drive around the world, especially in developing countries, with an indirect diss against rivals in the United States and Europe. "We act on our words," he said at yesterday's regular press ...
Vaccines and the Changing International Order
The Chief Reporter for Germany's state broadcaster Deutsche Welle, Miodrag Soric, can't believe what he's seeing. China is turning the battle for access to COVID-19 vaccines into a tremendous soft power win in the Global South -- and they're doing it at the expense of the West!
From Africa to Asia to the Americas and Even Europe, Countries Scramble for Chinese-Made COVID-19 Vaccines
Countries across the Global South and now even in Europe scrambled this weekend to source COVID-19 vaccines from pretty much anywhere they could buy them -- which in many cases brought them to China's doorstep. Amid widespread shortages, the European Union ...
European Analysts Become Increasingly Worried About Geopolitical Consequences of China’s Global Vaccine Push
European international relations scholars are expressing mounting concern over the long-term geopolitical consequences of China's assertive campaign to provide developing countries with COVID-19 vaccines. It's clear the European foreign policy establishment, both analysts and in the media, seem to regard Chinese ...