When non-Western
home-grown—half-baked or partially trialed—vaccines are shunned even by locals, which are often donated or exported at a discounted price to developing countries that can’t afford the “safer” ones produced by the West—the top three countries involved in this vaccine diplomacy
game are China,
India, and Russia, whose “cheap-and-cheat” vaccines do not exude much confidence among millions of targeted recipients.
Although the Chinese, Indian, or
Russian vaccines are offered
free of charge to them, millions of
people in the developing world refuse to be jabbed, because they know too well that not all vaccines are created equal.