Japan, US Pledge to Donate Billions of Dollars to COVAX to Counter Beijing’s Vaccine Diplomacy

U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan leave the Rose Garden at the conclusion of a news conference at the White House in Washington, DC. The two leaders met to discuss issues including China, human rights, supply chain resilience and other topics on April 16, 2021. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images

Japan and United States have recently pledged to donate more COVID-19 vaccines and funding to developing countries through the COVAX global sharing scheme to counter the Chinese communist regime’s vaccine diplomacy.

At the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) summit on June 2 in Japan, summit chairman Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged that Japan would donate 30 million doses of vaccines produced in Japan to other countries through the COVAX program.