The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using vaccine diplomacy to expand its geopolitical influence, yet international market research data shows that CCP vaccines have the second lowest score in the world. Pictured here are people receiving a vaccine developed by CCP Kexing in partnership with Brazil at a traditional carnival near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 8, 2021.
Unlike the United States and many other countries, the Communist Party of China prioritizes vaccine exports, not domestic distribution. The main goal is to make up for the Communist Party’s failures in the origins of the virus in the world of Communist virus (New Coronavirus, Wuhan Pneumonia) epidemics, “mask diplomacy,” etc., and to reap huge economic benefits through vaccine exports.
Beijing was also the first to advocate a “vaccine passport” as a prerequisite for international travel. The CCP-recognized vaccine passport requires that the passport owner receive a vaccine recognized by the CCP. Currently, the only way to enter the mainland and be exempt from quarantine is to be vaccinated with a CCP vaccine. In response, James Palmer, senior editor and correspondent for Foreign Policy, commented in an April 7 article that nationalism continues to trump logic.
On April 5, the Nikkei Shimbun estimated the scope of the CCP’s “vaccine diplomacy” using information provided by the CCP’s official website and UNICEF, which showed that at least 70 countries and regions have approved CCP vaccines or reached agreements to receive them. In addition, more than 100 countries or regions have received support from China for the outbreak, taking into account mask supplies, doctor deployment and other forms of assistance.
Countries receiving support include those covered by the Communist Party’s “One Belt, One Road” program, as well as Latin American countries that have not yet signed on to the “One Belt, One Road.
China exports more than 115 million doses of vaccines, almost twice as much as India and the European Union.
China had exported 115 million doses by the end of March, according to Airfinity, a British company that provides real-time life sciences intelligence. By comparison, India exported 63 million doses, most of which were vaccines licensed by AstraZeneca. The European Union shipped 58 million doses to the United Kingdom, Japan and other countries.
In terms of production, China produced 230 million doses, far more than the US, Europe or India.
The EU vaccine passport (a digital certificate allowing free movement within member states) will only be distributed to vaccines that have been approved by the European Medicine Agency (EMA). The European Medicine Agency has not yet started evaluating the Chinese vaccines. If a “vaccine passport” based on the CCP vaccine becomes widely available, China will gain an advantage in the global tourism industry and its corporate executives will have a head start in trading.
The effectiveness of the CCP vaccine is still unclear, and no company has yet released late-stage test data. The latest data released by Brazil shows that the overall effectiveness of early results from Sinovac Biotech was lowered to 50.4 percent from the official 78 percent announced by the Chinese Communist Party, and that 50.4 percent included patients who showed minimal symptoms. The CCP vaccines Sinovac and Sinopharm failed to inspire confidence.
The CCP’s own science and medicine departments have been exposed several times in the last year for falsifying data. One of them was the copying of the same cell pictures from each other in 121 medical papers from the Chinese side reported in the Wall Street Journal last July. The papers were published by scholars from China at different hospitals or institutions between four years, but all used the same images in an apparent: “You copy him, he copies you.”
The World Health Organization says the vaccine meets the necessary criteria, which is an efficacy rate of more than 50 percent; according to its advisory panel, their data shows that the Koxin vaccine has an efficacy rate close to 70 percent.
These results are still far below the efficacy of some Western vaccines, such as Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty (Pfizer vaccine) and Moderna’s vaccine. They are more than 90 percent effective.
Even in countries with close ties to Beijing, the low reputation of Communist vaccines has caused sales problems. In Kyrgyzstan, some doctors are refusing to use the Sinopharm vaccine, opting instead to wait for the Russian vaccine. Only 39 percent of Hong Kong people said they would receive vaccines from State Pharma.
In late March, Sinopharm’s distributor in the United Arab Emirates said it was inviting “very few” people to get a third dose of the vaccine because of insufficient antibody response to the first two doses.
Last December, YouGov, a British-based international market research agency, conducted a poll of 19,000 people in 17 countries and regions to gauge their views on different vaccines and found that the Chinese communist vaccine scored the second lowest, just above India. According to the Associated Press, the Philippines ordered 25 million doses of the Coxin Sinovac vaccine, and a research team found that less than 20 percent of respondents had confidence in the Chinese communist vaccine.
Some countries using the Chinese vaccine (including the United Arab Emirates and Chile) currently have relatively high vaccination rates, but their new cases are still on the rise or at least infection rates are not declining. Meanwhile, the official Communist media has spread conspiracy theories about Western vaccines: namely, that the U.S. has refused to investigate the dangers of Fubetide; and that the Communist virus is suspected to be involved in former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s action plan. The source of the virus was the U.S. military.
This year, the Chinese Communist Party has also implicated former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, who was the first to sign a petition in Washington, D.C., in support of Chinese people leaving the party, regiment, and team back in 2005, during his tenure. According to outside analysis, the Chinese Communist Party has always harbored a grudge against this.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld poses with volunteers at the Sign-Out Center near the Lincoln Memorial on May 29, 2005.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld signs a petition in support of the Chinese Party withdrawal wave on May 29, 2005.
China’s vaccine situation is frequent, and the quarantine and blockade currently in place in mainland China due to the epidemic has not been greatly eased by vaccination. The latest blockade has also been imposed in Ruili, Yunnan province, near the border with Myanmar.
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