India Moves to Challenge China’s Emerging Dominance in C19 Vaccine Distribution in Developing Countries

Developing countries in Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Americas are now the new front in an increasingly contentious struggle between Asia’s two continental powers. India and China, both pharmaceutical manufacturing powerhouses, are jostling over who will become the primary supplier of COVID-19 vaccines to many of the world’s poorest countries.

The Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, is producing vaccines in collaboration with the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, and in just the past few days the company’s shipped tens of millions of doses to Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar, Mauritius, and Seychelles.

In regions where India and China are competing for influence, for example in Asia, the Indian Ocean, and East Africa, the arrival of SII’s vaccines present a formidable challenge to China’s months-long campaign to integrate vaccines into its soft power diplomacy.

And in some countries like Thailand and Cambodia, a country’s choice of provider is increasingly seen as an indication of its geopolitical leanings.

Developing Countries at the Center of Sino-Indian Vaccine Diplomacy Rivalry

  • AFRICA: South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced that the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority granted approval to the SII, which is producing the vaccine in collaboration with the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, to supply the drug to the country. (MINT)
  • AMERICAS: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has sourced 2 million ready-to-use doses of SII’s AstraZeneca vaccine after supplies from China stalled. (AL JAZEERA)
  • ASIA: New Delhi sent Myanmar 1.5 million free doses of the Indian-manufactured Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Friday (Jan 22), as part of its Vaccine Maitri (friendship) Initiative. (STRAITS TIMES)

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