Monday, May 10, 2021

China and vaccine diplomacy

This PBS report about Serbia's success at vaccination (and its embrace of vaccine from anywhere - especially China's) was very interesting: 

 

Once again, I find myself (reluctantly) kind of impressed with China's push for world influence by selling themselves as the "good" guys who will just get things done.  

I don't know how the new isolationist sentiment of the American (and Australia) wingnut Right thinks their position is going to achieve anything other than increasing China's global standing.  

By the way, Serbia also knows a thing or two about crushing anti-vaxx ideas, which have transitioned from a thing of the nutty Left to have its new home in the Wingnut Right:

President Vucic has warned civil servants not to expect paid sick leave if they catch the virus and have not received a COVID-19 vaccination.   

and:

"All those... who received the vaccine by May 31 will get 3,000 dinars (25 euros, $30)," President Aleksandar Vucic told local media, adding that he expected three million to be vaccinated by the end of the month.

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