TOKYO - Chinese-made vaccines have become a major part of the world's race to immunize people against COVID - 19. The jabs - 1 billion doses exported to 109 countries and territories as of September have saved lives and helped President Xi Jinping paint China as a responsibility power. Beijing has talked much less about lingering questions about shots efficacy, the transparency of its clinical trials data and politics that could be attached to the shipments.
China's vaccine diplomacy is a complicated tale involving feats of production and propaganda. China has tried to scrub away the stigma of COVID 19' s emergence in the unanswered Wuhan city and the central Chinese riddle over the origin of the novel coronavirus.
What is China doing to help vaccine the world and how it has promoted its interests in this process.