{"id":28642,"date":"2021-02-19T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/19\/coronavirus-vaccine-diplomacy-west-falling-behind-russia-china-race-influence"},"modified":"2021-02-19T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T05:00:54","slug":"vaccine-diplomacy-west-falling-behind-in-race-for-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28642","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine diplomacy: west falling behind in race for influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the UK and US strive for herd immunity, Russia and China are leveraging their Covid jabs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cToday it is easier to get a nuclear weapon than to get a vaccine,\u201d the Serbian president, Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107, declared in January. He was bragging. The Balkans country had just received its first shipment of almost 1m Covid-19 vaccine doses from Sinopharm, a state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Serbia has augmented its stockpile with tens of thousands of shots of Russia\u2019s Sputnik V, signed an agreement to build a bottling plant for the Russian vaccine and now boasts the fastest vaccination rate in continental Europe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/19\/coronavirus-vaccine-diplomacy-west-falling-behind-russia-china-race-influence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the UK and US strive for herd immunity, Russia and China are leveraging their Covid jabsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage\u201cToday it is easier to get a nuclear weapon than to get a vaccine,\u201d the Serbian president, Aleksan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1934,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,62,914,419,1347,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-russia","category-serbia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28645,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions\/28645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}