CHINA-COVID PANDEMIC: CITING INDIA'S CASE, GUANGMING DAILY IMPLICITLY CRITICISES U.S. FOR "VACCINE NATIONALISM"

An article by Chou Zejing, a researcher at the Beijing Xi Jinping Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and Lecturer in the Department of International Politics, School of International Relations in the Guangming Daily (May 3) warning that "experts generally predict that the epidemic in India has not yet reached its peak, and a larger storm is still to come" castigated "some countries" for "vaccine nationalism".. He wrote that "In the face of India’s severe epidemic situation and vaccine shortage, many countries and international organizations, including China, have offered to help", but some countries have initiated "vaccine nationalism", banning the export of vaccines and their key raw materials, artificially. Without naming the U.S. the article said Indian experts have discovered a variety of double-mutated and even triple-mutated viruses and the continuous mutation of the virus has increased the pathogenicity and the risk of spreading to Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Saying that "vaccine nationalism" will bring severe challenges to the global economic recovery, he elaborated on China's role and that it believed " In the face of the epidemic, no one is an island".







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