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Vaccine diplomacy

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Thomas Shattuck
Thomas Shattuck

“Taiwan's experiences with COVID-19 vaccines this year offer a case study in the geopolitics of vaccine diplomacy. Taipei has served as facilitator and receiver, and will likely soon serve as a donor. It has navigated contract disputes and experienced wavering allies, and has seen its relationships with other countries solidify. With a domestic vaccine ready, Taiwan is set to enter into the next stage of vaccine diplomacy.”

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Esearch fellow in the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
30 Jul 2021 3 3
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Heiko Maas
Heiko Maas

“We note, in particular with China, that the supply of vaccines was also used to make very clear political demands of various countries. In order to prevent this from happening in the first place we don't just have to criticize it, but we have to ensure that the affected countries have alternatives. Those alternative are the vaccines we have available, and which we, of course, want to make available to as many countries and regions in the world as possible. [That way] the Russians and the Chinese can't continue to conduct their difficult vaccine diplomacy in this fashion, which only has the purpose of increasing their own influence and not necessarily to save people's lives in the first instance.”

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Germany Foreign Minister
13 Jul 2021 3 3
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Ting-yu Wang
Ting-yu Wang

“China ceaselessly pressures Taiwan, but now it wants to appear benevolent - just as Taiwan is facing a worsening pandemic - by selling Taiwan vaccines [Pfizer-BioNTech sold by Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group] with defective packaging that will expire soon.”

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Taiwanese lawmaker from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)
23 May 2021 6 5
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Chung Eui-yong
Chung Eui-yong

“Currently, (South Korea) is discussing (the potential swap deal) with the U.S. side quite earnestly. Vaccine cooperation between South Korea and the U.S. is taking place in a multilayered manner through various levels. The tension between the U.S. and China or (Seoul's) participation in the Quad, I believe, has nothing to do with (vaccine cooperation) directly.”

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South Korea Minister of Foreign Affairs
20 Apr 2021 5 3
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Joseph Wu
Joseph Wu

“If you look at those countries that are receiving the Chinese vaccines, whether it's Brazil or Chile or El Salvador, I think it's having lots of impact on our diplomatic allies. In Paraguay, the Chinese government was very active in saying to the public that if Paraguay severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan they would get millions of doses of China's vaccines, which put pressure on Taiwan to help. In the last few weeks, we have been speaking to like-minded countries, including Japan, the United States, India etcetera, and India fortunately has been able to provide some COVAXIN vaccines to Paraguay. The most important trend is the Indian government who is willing to help, and the United States who has decided they want to help, and I think this is going to relieve a lot of pressure for a lot of countries.”

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Taiwan’s foreign minister
07 Apr 2021 12 8
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Filip Sebok
Filip Sebok

“China raised the stakes in the international vaccine competition on Saturday, saying that foreigners wishing to enter the Chinese mainland from Hong Kong will face fewer paperwork requirements if they are inoculated with Chinese-made coronavirus vaccines.”

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Analyst with the Prague-based think tank the Association for International Affairs
13 Mar 2021 2 4
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Li Haidong
Li Haidong

“Both China and the US, as capable countries, should extend a helping hand to other countries in need, rather than use vaccines as a tool of competition and turn the issue of global public health products into a geopolitical one. Latin American countries have been exploited by the US. The attitude of the US toward Latin American countries on vaccines once again demonstrates its utilitarianism, which is to use what can be used and discard what cannot be used.”

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Professor at the Institute of International Relations at the China Foreign Affairs University
11 Mar 2021 5 4
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Chen Xi
Chen Xi

“From my discussion with friends in China who serve in the government or top universities, they told me that the strategy is that China would like to have what they call vaccine diplomacy, especially in the first half of the year. So the strategy is to first supply the rest of the world before they come back to vaccinate more and more people in China. The immunity gap is a concern shared by many people, including myself. I think China may have enough time to catch up, if we're talking about [higher vaccination rates by] the end of this year, but if you think about getting that by summer, I have a concern whether this can be true.”

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Associate professor of health policy and economics at the Yale School of Public Health
11 Mar 2021 3 4
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Maxim Samorukov
Maxim Samorukov

“Russia will gladly take up any issue that can divide the EU. This [EU's slowness in its vaccination program] is a great opportunity to show that Russia is better organised, better mobilised ... Russian suspicions that the US is using the EU to dominate Europe are deeply rooted. By undermining EU unity, Russia undermines EU capacity to obey the US and any such opportunity is seen by Kremlin as a great opportunity that should be taken.”

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Deputy editor and a fellow at Carnegie Moscow
08 Mar 2021 5 5
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Krishna Udayakumar
Krishna Udayakumar

“We're seeing certainly real-time vaccine diplomacy start to play out, with China in the lead, in terms of being able to manufacture vaccines within China and make them available to others, largely low- and middle-income countries around the world. When you're making diplomatic decisions in two or three years, you may have fond memories of who was there to help you in the middle of a crisis.”

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Founding director of the Global Health Innovation Center at Duke University in the US
02 Mar 2021 1 7
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Gaston Alfonso Browne
Gaston Alfonso Browne

“Today several Caribbean countries, including Antigua and Barbuda, received 175,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from India. Of the 175,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, 40,000 were donated to the people of Antigua and Barbuda. For this, we are extremely grateful. PM Narendra Modi has demonstrated perhaps the most significant act of benevolence, kindness and empathy that was seen in recent times compared to any act of any other leader globally.”

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Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
01 Mar 2021 5 3
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Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron

“If we announce billions today to supply doses in six months, eight months, a year, our friends in Africa will, under justified pressure from their people, buy doses from the Chinese and the Russians. And the strength of the West will be a concept, and not a reality.”

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President of France
19 Feb 2021 4 2
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James Bays
James Bays

“Rich countries are vaccinating people but many other parts of the world are not. You're never going to get rid of COVID-19 if you have it spreading in some parts of the world and potentially mutating, and potentially in the future making vaccines not work. Less than 1 percent of COVID-19 vaccines so far globally have been administered in the 32 countries currently facing the most severe humanitarian crises.”

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Al Jazeera’s diplomatic editor
17 Feb 2021 3 3
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Zoran Zaev
Zoran Zaev

“We have good news. We will receive 8,000 Pfizer vaccines from Serbia. Today, President Vucic confirmed to me that Serbia will help us with vaccines from their supply, which we will pay at the purchase price. This is an act of solidarity by our neighbour and strengthens our friendship. Negotiations are underway on the technical procedures for the vaccination, and health professionals, people with chronic diseases, adults and other at risk groups will be vaccinated with the first batch.”

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Prime Minister of North Macedonia
18 Jan 2021 6 4
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Ali Khamenei
Ali Khamenei

“Imports of U.S. and British vaccines into the country are forbidden. I have told this to officials and I'm saying it publicly now. I really do not trust the United States and Britain. Sometimes they want to test their vaccines on other countries.”

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Iran’s Supreme Leader
08 Jan 2021 6 6
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Aaron Rabena
Aaron Rabena

“If it [the Chinese vaccine] turns out to be good, effective, safe, affordable, then I guess that might change to a certain extent the perceptions here. China wants to make up for their distorted image.”

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Research fellow at the Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation in Metro Manila
04 Jan 2021 3 5
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Yanzhong Huang
Yanzhong Huang

“In a country where the Chinese vaccine is the only one available, you either accept it or not. But when you have choices between different vaccines, people are rational. They're certainly going to choose Western-made vaccines because they're the No. 1 choice, the data is already available, and they're safe. China, so far, they haven't had any systematic data available.”

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Senior fellow for global health at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations
29 Dec 2020 3 3
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