The World Health Organization on Friday approved China’s Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. This has frustrated those who trumpet that the US is on track to overtake China in the fight against the pandemic. Given a severe domestic epidemic situation and fierce vaccine nationalism, the US technological advantages cannot be quickly unleashed, and China has maintained its lead in comprehensive capabilities. China has curbed the epidemic without the help of vaccines. It has also been at the forefront of vaccine research and development and has the capabilities to expand vaccine production capacity explosively. China has been able to expand the scope of vaccination at home while at the same time exporting large quantities of vaccines to the world. Adding the number of domestic vaccinations and that of exported ones, the figure is approximately 500 million, about twice that of the US. China is undoubtedly far ahead of other countries. It’s true that China’s current vaccination rate is lower than that of the US and some other countries. But the country’s epidemic prevention and control capabilities have made up for this. The Chinese society is in general at ease with the speed of vaccination and has the confidence for next winter. This has allowed China to distribute a large number of vaccines to other developing countries that are in urgent need of vaccines. This cannot be done by simply having good wishes or technology. The US has advanced technology, but so far it has hardly exported locally produced vaccines. India was once ambitious, but the outbreak of the second wave of COVID-19 has brought its vaccine exports to a halt. Only China has maintained stable domestic prevention and control, vaccination and vaccine exports. WHO’s endorsement of Sinopharm’s vaccine represents a world-level recognition. It’s all about the vaccine itself, and has nothing to do with politics. But the fact that Chinese vaccines can be at the forefront of the global pandemic fight is because of the support of the Chinese system. This point will eventually become clearer to the world. The Western public opinion, led by the US, has done a lot to discredit China’s pandemic fight and disparage its vaccines. But China has been able to tamp down the new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases to zero and China-produced vaccines have become worldwide popular. Facts speak louder than words. The US and Western public opinion’s smears are becoming increasingly pale. The pandemic fight is far from over. With the virus mutating, new situations have emerged one after another. There are still many tough battles ahead. A public health war of such a scale cannot be easily won by a single method. For all countries, it’s destined to be a war of all people and one that requires a comprehensive use of different methods.
–The Daily Mail-Global Times News Exchange Item
