Did China provide 2 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world, while America dropped hundreds of thousands of bombs instead?
Take a look at the new viral photo, and find out what the FACTS really are!
Did China Provide 2 Billion Vaccine Doses To The World?
Sinophiles have been sharing an infographic comparing Chinese President Xi Jinping to the last three American Presidents – Donald Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
It shows that China under Xi Jinping provided 2 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world, while America under President Bush, Obama and Trump dropped over 240,000 bombs.
Truth : China Did Not Provide 2 Billion Vaccine Doses To The World
The truth is this is just Chinese propaganda and well, FAKE NEWS, and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : China Did Not Provide 2 Billion Vaccine Doses To The World
The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on 23 September 2021 that “China has provided 1.2 billion doses of finished and bulk vaccines to more than 100 countries and international organisations“.
So even if we take their word for it, China most definitely has NOT provided 2 billion doses of their COVID-19 vaccines to the world.
Data analytics company, Airfinity, puts China’s worldwide COVID-19 vaccine exports slightly lower – at just 1.1 billion doses to 123 countries, as of 8 October 2021.
No matter how you slice this salami, China has not come close to providing the world with 2 billion vaccine doses.
Read more : Are Top 4 COVID-19 Vaccines From China?
Fact #2 : Provided Does Not Mean Donated
The misleading “infographic” tries to imply that China “donated” 2 billion doses of vaccines to the world.
Note how it uses the same word – “provided” just like the Chinese Foreign Ministry. It is a curious use of the word, since other countries would have either used “exported” or “donated”.
The use of the ambiguous word “provided” is no coincidence, as China wants the world to think of it as benevolent and generous. The truth is much less impressive.
Most Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines were SOLD for profit, not donated for the good of their fellow men.
There’s nothing wrong in selling vaccines. It is simply FALSE to imply or claim that China donated 2 billion vaccine doses.
Fact #3 : China Is A Stingy Vaccine Donor
Despite their implied benevolence, China is a notably stingy donor.
China only started donating to COVAX on 3 February 2021, pledging 10 million doses of their Sinopharm vaccine.
Not only was that a paltry 0.3% of the 3.3 BILLION doses secured by COVAX at that time, it took them almost 3 months to manufacture those 10 million doses.
China pledged to donate a total of 100 million vaccine doses, with around 37 million doses delivered by 1 October 2021.
That pales in comparison to the United States, which donated more than 190 million doses as of 13 October and has pledged to donate more than 1.1 BILLION vaccine doses – 11X more than China.
Read more : Did China Contribute 60% Of COVAX Vaccine Supply?
Fact #4 : China Is A Stingy COVAX Donor
COVAX – the worldwide initiative for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines – does not rely on donated vaccines. It relies primarily on financial aid, which allows it to directly purchase vaccines to distribute.
You can check how much each country or organisation donated in the latest COVAX donor list.
China did not contribute a single dollar to the COVAX Facility until 6 August 2021, when they announced a single US$100 million contribution.
That may sound impressive, until you actually compare their contribution with what the rest of the world is contributing…
| COVAX Donors | Contribution In USD |
| United States | 3,500 million |
| Germany | 1,070 million |
| Japan | 1,000 million |
| United Kingdom | 733 million |
| Sweden | 538 million |
| European Commission | 489 million |
| Italy | 470 million |
| Canada | 384 million |
| Sweden | 296 million |
| France | 242 million |
| South Korea | 210 million |
| B&M Gates Foundation | 206 million |
| Switzerland | 162 million |
| Saudi Arabia | 150 million |
| Norway | 141 million |
| Spain | 122 million |
| Netherlands | 108 million |
| Australia | 100 million |
| China | 100 million |
China could only match Australia, donating LESS THAN HALF what South Korea donated and just 10% of what Japan donated donated to COVAX, despite being the world’s second largest economy.
Even more embarrassingly, China donated LESS THAN HALF what the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – a private organisation – donated to COVAX.
But not to worry – Russia didn’t contribute a single cent to COVAX. So Chinese propagandists would do better to compare China’s contributions against their northern brethren, instead of their western rivals.
Fact #5 : CCP Government Is No Angel
China under the CCP government may not have dropped bombs on other countries like the United States, but it is no angel.
While the United States dropped bombs on terrorists and sometimes innocents caught in “The War On Terror”, the CCP government conducted its own “War on Terror” in its Xinjiang Province by rounding up between 1-3 million Uyghur Muslims and putting them into internment camps, which they call “vocational education and training centres”.
Now, there is no equivalence between dropping bombs on people, and imprisoning them to use as slave labour. But it would be foolish for anyone to believe that China is an angel.
The CCP government has aggressively threatened Taiwan, continuously sending flights of military planes into their ADIZ (Air Defence Identification Zone).
The CCP government also took over islands and features in the Paracel and Spratly Islands that belonged to other countries, and built military installations on them, including airfields, radar and radio stations as well as missile defences, and actively use them to threatened passing ships.
The CCP government even sent its troops to engage the Indian army in aggressive melee and face-off skirmishes on their border, resulting in deaths of 20 Indian soldiers and approximately 43 Chinese soldiers in 2020.
China’s conduct within their own country and internationally, has shown that the Middle Kingdom has no qualms ignoring international laws and destroying people’s lives, to get what they want.
That makes China no different from other superpowers abusing their economic and military strength to bully smaller and less powerful nations.
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