China’s Cynical ‘Pandemic Diplomacy’

China’s Cynical ‘Pandemic Diplomacy’
A worker tests an experimental vaccine for the COVID-19 at the Sinovac Biotech facilities in Beijing on April 29, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images
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Commentary
Is China leveraging its pandemic in new ways? It appears that Beijing is taking a page out of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) debt-trap strategy and applying it to countries victimized by the CCP virus (novel coronavirus).
James Gorrie
James Gorrie
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James Gorrie is the author of the 2013 book “The China Crisis” and discusses current events and China on his YouTube Podcast, The Banana Republican.
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