The U.S. will be a 'formidable competitor' to China in Covid vaccine diplomacy, says expert
China has been a major Covid vaccine supplier to much of the developing world, but the U.S. is now catching up, said Huang Yanzhong, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The White House last week laid out plans to donate millions of Covid vaccine doses overseas and reports have emerged that President Joe Biden wants to do more. U.S.-China relations had been off to a rocky start under the Biden administration, with both sides clashing over several issues including the origins of the coronavirus.
Workers unload boxes containing the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, donated by China, at the Damascus International Airport on April 24, 2021, in the Syrian capital.U.S.-China competition may be heating up on another front: Covid-19 vaccine diplomacy. China has been a major Covid vaccine supplier to much of the developing world, an effort that some experts said couldBut a health governance and policy expert told CNBC on Thursday that the U.S. is now catching up, with the
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