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Germany says China’s Covid-19 vaccine diplomacy has political purpose

China is using its Covid-19 vaccine diplomacy for political purposes, accordin
g to Germany’s foreign minister.

Heiko Maas said on Tuesday that both Russia and China had been good at public
promoting the delivery of their vaccines to other countries, but also pursued
other aims in doing so.

“We note, in particular with China, that the supply of vaccines was also used
 to make very clear political demands of various countries,” he said.

Speaking to reporters during a trip to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he visited a
pfizer production facility, Maas said such behaviour should be rejected.

To prevent this happening in the first place we don’t just have to criticise
it, but we have to ensure that the affected countries have alternatives,” he
said.

“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 possib
le. (That way) the Russians and the Chinese can’t continue to conduct their d
ifficult vaccine diplomacy in this fashion, which only has the purpose of incr
easing their own influence and not necessarily to save people’s lives in the
first instance.”

While he did not provide any specific examples, Taiwan has accused Beijing of
using the delivery of its shots to pressure countries into dropping their supp
ort for the self-ruled island, which it claims as its own.


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