{"id":33986,"date":"2021-07-12T16:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T07:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/12\/taiwan-tech-companies-buy-10m-covid-vaccine-doses-in-deal-that-sidesteps-china"},"modified":"2021-07-12T16:58:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T07:58:19","slug":"taiwan-tech-companies-buy-10m-covid-vaccine-doses-in-deal-that-sidesteps-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33986","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan tech companies buy 10m Covid vaccine doses in deal that sidesteps China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing had offered Taiwan the vaccines, amid a major shortage on the island, but Taiwan\u2019s ruling party did not want to deal with China directly<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Major Taiwanese tech companies have inked a deal to buy 10m vaccine doses for Taiwan, sidestepping months of complicated geopolitical wrangling between Beijing and Taipei.<\/p>\n<p>The US$350m purchase from German manufacturer BioNTech, is split between TSMC, the world\u2019s largest semiconductor manufacturer, and Foxconn, one of the world\u2019s largest contract electronics makers, and its charity foundation. The two companies will donate the vaccines to Taiwan\u2019s central epidemic command centre for distribution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/12\/taiwan-tech-companies-buy-10m-covid-vaccine-doses-in-deal-that-sidesteps-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing had offered Taiwan the vaccines, amid a major shortage on the island, but Taiwan\u2019s ruling party did not want to deal with China directlySee all our coronavirus coverageMajor Taiwanese tech companies have inked a deal to buy 10m vaccine doses fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,1066,346,914,74,565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-taiwan","category-vaccines-and-immunisation"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33986","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34009,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33986\/revisions\/34009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}