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China's vaccine diplomacy

Poorer countries in search of Covid-19 vaccines are looking east

Poorer countries in search of Covid-19 vaccines are looking east. Agathe Demarais, global forecasting director at the Economist Intelligence Unit, describes how China and Russia are stepping in to provide vaccines where Europe and the US aren't. Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, explains how this feeds into China's soft power aspirations. Yuan Ding, dean of the China Europe International Business School, and David Haigh, CEO of Brand Finance, discusses China's efforts at soft power so far.

(Photo: A nurse in Brazil holds a sample of a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine)

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Thu 25 Feb 2021 08:32GMT

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