China’s coronavirus vaccines: for many countries, it’s not political, it’s the only choice

Viewed from Brussels or Washington, the global roll-out of Chinese vaccines is inevitably seen in terms of great power rivalry. This is typical of conversations about China’s global engagement, which tend to focus on geopolitics while overlooking important domestic and regional dynamics, as well as obscuring the agency of countries that China does business with. With many Western countries scrambling to inoculate their own populations, vaccine makers in China, Russia and India are stepping up…

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