A atuação chinesa na distribuição de vacinas no contexto da pandemia de COVID-19

Abstract

The present work aims to understand China's performance in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main objective of the research is to better understand how China acted in relation to the distribution of doses during the COVID-19 pandemic, using its large-scale vaccine production and distribution power to donate doses to countries that are unable to buy them. We will analyze the Chinese achievements that went against the grain of “vaccine nationalism”, where Beijing granted large amounts of immunizers (especially studied and developed by its laboratories) to the regions of the global periphery. In addition to Chinese donations, the COVAX initiative was introduced, which served many less developed countries as the only solution to receive optimal treatments against the disease. Based on scientific articles on the subject and analytical data extracted from international organizations, we researched and identified data to understand the Chinese role in international cooperation in the distribution of vaccines against COVID-19, and try to identify whether the hypothesis that the government Chinese people used this policy as an instrument to expand their soft power by operating in less developed regions that benefited most from donations