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Was Vietnam’s Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine Debacle Just a Stunt?

In this op-ed for The Diplomat, I explained a seemingly contradictory yet cleverly elaborate move by the Vietnamese government to boost vaccine uptake.

Le Dong Hai Nguyen by Le Dong Hai Nguyen
August 14, 2021
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There is a strong case to be made that the Vietnamese government leveraged ingrained anti-Chinese sentiment to boost vaccine uptake.

There’s hardly any populace on Earth that is more anti-China than the Vietnamese. Several millennia of wars and border skirmishes, from a thousand years under Chinese rule to today’s disputes over the South China Sea, have ensured in Vietnam a deep distrust of its ideologically and culturally proximate neighbor.

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This mistrust burst into the open recently when Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest city, became the beneficiary of a corporate “donation” of five million doses of Vero Cell vaccines produced by China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation (Sinopharm).

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TL;DR: So, it’s quite likely that the Sinopharm vaccine is just a foil for the often-underestimated AstraZeneca vaccine – an elaborate plan to boost vaccine rollout in Vietnam’s largest city and COVID-19 epicenter. Even if the Chinese vaccines might be included in the city’s future vaccination programs, Vietnam has achieved an important goal: nobody seems to make a fuss about blood clots anymore.

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I love to write about development economics, geopolitics, and occasionally literature review and technology tips. I am an International Economics major at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a director of the Global Association of Economics Education.

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