Vaccine is not easy to make, only two that succeeded. So if the solution is cheaper and convenient, why not use it until the trend changes. Like Spanish flu for SARS. Anyway, we don’t sell them computer chips and we shouldn’t expect them to buy out vaccines, so long they can lock down the deadly virus circulating.
China didn't have to make, they could have asked US/EU or India and import it, too bad they are too arrogant and have no friends other than Russia (whose vaccines are shit too)
China may have opened up incoming travel -- but the rest of the world is shutting down or restricting incoming travel from China -- reminiscent of early 2020. The U.S. is the latest country to join the trend. U.S. weighs new COVID rules for travelers from China https://www.reuters.com/world/us-weighs-new-covid-rules-travelers-china-us-officials-say-2022-12-28/
My understanding is that all the foreigners are required to be covid negative 48 hours prior to board the flights, so it is the same for other countries tighten screening of the outbound chinese.
I agree, but if China wasn't so arrogant about local manufacturing, they could have licensed one of the working vaccines and avoided the current fiasco. But nobody likes them because of their shit attitude, even their own citizens.
“China’s elites are stockpiling supplies of Paxlovid, Pfizer’s Covid-19 antiviral drug, and giving it away to curry favour with business associates as an unprecedented Covid wave sweeps the country, leaving hospitals stripped of resources and ordinary people struggling to access medication,” the Financial Times reports.
These type of shenanigans among the Chinese elite should not surprise anyone -- after all they know their homegrown Covid vaccines and medicines are crap. This is the same crowd which is allowing the import BioNTech mRNA Covid vaccines which were only to be used on German expatriates in China -- but we are also finding these mRNA vaccine doses are being re-directed & being used on the Chinese elite.
Just how f@cked is China, you ask? Taiwan is offering them aid. Taiwan’s Tsai offers aid to China amid Covid surge https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20230101-taiwan-s-tsai-offers-aid-to-china-amid-covid-surge Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen extended an olive branch to Beijing on Sunday, pledging to offer assistance if needed as coronavirus cases surge in China after its abrupt lifting of pandemic restrictions. "As long as there is a need, we are willing to provide necessary assistance based on humanitarian concerns," Tsai said in her customary New Year's Day speech. She added that she hoped Taiwanese aid could "help more people out of the pandemic and have a healthy and safe New Year". China is facing an explosion of Covid-19 cases after dropping its stringent "zero-Covid" containment policy last month, three years after the coronavirus first emerged in the city of Wuhan. Chinese hospitals have been hit by a flood of mostly elderly patients, crematoriums have been overloaded and many pharmacies have run out of fever medications. In his televised New Year speech on Saturday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said the "light of hope is right in front of us" as epidemic prevention and control entered "a new phase". Xi also said in a separate speech on Friday that Beijing "resolutely fought against attempts by separatists to seek 'Taiwan independence' and intervention of external forces in this regard". Relations between Taiwan and China have deteriorated, with Beijing ramping up military, diplomatic and economic pressure on the self-ruled island, which it claims as part of its territory. Last year Beijing staged massive military exercises near the island to protest a visit to Taipei by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in August. Tsai said Sunday the Chinese military activities around Taiwan were "unhelpful" for maintaining relations between the two. "War has never been an option to solve problems. Only dialogue, cooperation, and the common goal of promoting regional stability and development can make more people feel safe and happy," she said. A shared task for Taiwan and China in 2023 was to "restore post-pandemic healthy and sustainable exchanges between the people on the two sides" of the Taiwan Strait, she added. "We also have a shared duty to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and the region