US Senator: China Earns Money From US Taxpayers Using Global COVID Vaccination Program

US Senator: China Earns Money From US Taxpayers Using Global COVID Vaccination Program
A worker handles boxes of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, part of the the Covax programme, which aims to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccinations, after they were flown into the Ivato International Airport in Antananarivo, Madagascar on May 8, 2021. Mamyrael/AFP via Getty Images
Nicole Hao
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A U.S. senate budget hearing revealed that the Chinese regime has refused to contribute to, but receives money from, the global COVID-19 vaccination program, known as COVAX, which is financially supported by the United States.

“China started this [pandemic], refused to participate in COVAX, won’t contribute money, won’t contribute vaccines, but then COVAX turned it around and is paying them for their vaccines. This is odd, strange to say the least,” Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of Foreign Relations Committee, said at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request hearing on July 14.

Nicole Hao
Nicole Hao
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Nicole Hao is a Washington-based reporter focused on China-related topics. Before joining the Epoch Media Group in July 2009, she worked as a global product manager for a railway business in Paris, France.
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