{"id":30005,"date":"2021-03-21T18:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T09:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/mar\/21\/china-india-coronavirus-covid-vaccine-diplomacy-is-reaching-its-limit"},"modified":"2021-03-21T18:30:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T09:30:51","slug":"vaccine-tensions-loom-in-asia-as-china-and-india-trade-free-shots-for-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30005","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine tensions loom in Asia as China and India trade free shots for influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India and China have given away vaccine for diplomatic reasons. Now there\u2019s pressure to save supply for their own people<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While western Europe\u2019s \u201cvaccine war\u201d has been a struggle to prevent doses from being exported, in another part of the world, the battle is to give vaccines away.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a Bahraini prince and his retinue arrived in Nepal to climb Mount Everest. They brought climbing gear, provisions and \u2013 in an apparent surprise to regulators in Kathmandu \u2013 enough Covid-19 vaccines to inoculate 1,000 people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/mar\/21\/china-india-coronavirus-covid-vaccine-diplomacy-is-reaching-its-limit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and China have given away vaccine for diplomatic reasons. Now there\u2019s pressure to save supply for their own peopleCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhile western Europe\u2019s \u201cvaccine war\u201d has been a struggle to prevent dose&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"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":[41,1162,50,1066,346,62,241,79,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bahrain","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-india","category-nepal","category-society","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\/30005","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\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30006,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30005\/revisions\/30006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}