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China’s COVID-19 Vaccine Tussles

by Eric Olander
A health professional is inoculated with the Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac vaccine against COVID-19 in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, on January 19, 2021. MARCIO JAMES / AFP

If Xi Jinping thought back in May when he promised to make Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines available to developing countries as a “public good” that it would be an easy soft power win, well, he may now be reconsidering that assumption.

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