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Part of the problem is China's vaccine is substantially less effective than the mRNA ones. "Just make vaccines available" works less for them than it does in, say, the US.

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Another part of the problem is that China forbids Chinese citizens from getting foreign made vaccines. They’ve acquired them, but only allow foreigners to get them.

What you wrote is absolutely not true. No one gets foreign vaccines(mrna) in China.

It looks like you’re correct:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1219245.shtml

I was in Taiwan for the bulk of Covid and the only possible source of a Pfizer vaccine was from China’ Fosun group. It looks like Fosun had millions of doses sitting around for no one in mainland China to take

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-12/billionai...

What happened to Fosun licensing the BioNTech mRNA vaccine?

still waiting for approval in China. I guess it might eventually happen after China approves their own locally made mrna vaccine.

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