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Javier Guzman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development
Jillian Kohler, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Governance, Transparency and Accountability in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Nicaise Ndembi, Senior Science Advisor, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Natalie Rhodes, Policy Officer, Transparency International
David Wilson, Program Director, Health, Nutrition and Population, World Bank
Tom Wright, Senior Programme Officer, Transparency International
Additional speakers to be announced
MODERATOR
Janeen Madan Keller, Assistant Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Global Development
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He said authoritarian governments, including those in China and Russia, have taken the lead in vaccine diplomacy in the last months. It s never encouraging to see the world s largest dictatorships taking most advantage of this diplomatic opportunity, Gedan said.
The China National Pharmaceutical Group Corp., Sinopharm, is producing two COVID-19 vaccines while Sinovac, a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company, is making a third one.
Gedan said while China had offered bilateral loans of US$1 billion in Latin America, it refused to give COVID-19 vaccines to Paraguay, which recognizes Taiwan diplomatically. There have been reports from the foreign minister of Paraguay that intermediaries of the Chinese government explicitly said that Paraguay will not access the Chinese vaccine unless it changes its position on Taiwan, he said.
OTTAWA China and Russia have been using their locally produced COVID-19 vaccines to grow their international soft power by giving doses to desperate countries in order to have more political influence over them, experts say. Benjamin Gedan, deputy director of the Latin America program at the Wilson Center in Washington, called the practice vaccine diplomacy, noting that it happens when countries seek to grow their international prestige by distributing vaccines to nations that need them. He said authoritarian governments, including those in China and Russia, have taken the lead in vaccine diplomacy in the last months. It s never encouraging to see the world s largest dictatorships taking most advantage of this diplomatic opportunity, Gedan said.