Chinese vaccines sweep much of the world, despite concerns

The Associated Press ^ | March 2, 2021 | By HUIZHONG WU and KRISTEN GELINEAU

[Oldeconomybuyer]

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The plane laden with vaccines had just rolled to a stop at Santiago’s airport in late January, and Chile’s president, Sebastián Piñera, was beaming. “Today,” he said, “is a day of joy, emotion and hope.”

The source of that hope: China – a country that Chile and dozens of other nations are depending on to help rescue them from the COVID-19 pandemic.

China’s vaccine diplomacy campaign has been a surprising success: It has pledged roughly half a billion doses of its vaccines to more than 45 countries, according to a country-by-country tally by The Associated Press.

China’s vaccine diplomacy will only be as good as the vaccines it is offering, and it still faces hurdles.

Chinese vaccine companies have been “slow and spotty” in releasing their trial data, compared to companies like Pfizer and Moderna, said Yanzhong Huang, a global health expert at the U.S. think tank Council for Foreign Relations. None of China’s three vaccine candidates used globally have publicly released their late-stage clinical trial data.

China’s pharmaceutical business practices also have raised concerns. In 2018, it emerged that one of China’s biggest vaccine companies falsified data to sell its rabies vaccines. That same year, news broke that a Sinopharm subsidiary, which is behind one of the COVID-19 vaccines now, had made substandard diphtheria vaccines used in mandatory immunizations.

With Chinese vaccines, “for a lot of people, the first thing you think about is ‘Made in China,’ and that doesn’t give you much assurance,” said Joy Zhang, a professor at the University of Kent in the UK.

“China, India, Russia, Cuba, whenever they develop a vaccine or conduct research, their data is questioned, and people say their process is not transparent,” he said.

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Here's a video made by a guy that lived worked married in China for 10 years. He comments that when given a choice of vaccines for anything, all but the poorest Chinese go for the foreign made ones - the Chinese made ones are that bad, even dangerous. (his handle - laowhy - means foreigner in Chinese)
The Problem With China's Covid-19 Vaccine 176,859 views •Dec 17, 2020

[ronnie raygun]

Great opportunity to experiment with their bio engineering controlled by the military

[Brilliant]

Good. So we won’t need to do this.

[moovova]

That’s like getting robbed...and then paying the robber a reward when they return your property.

I’m In the wrong line of work.