Major Western news outlets are currently reporting how the Pentagon ran a secret anti-vaccination campaign in order to undermine China’s life-saving COVID vaccination programme in the Philippines – and beyond – from the spring of 2020 to mid-2021.

According to Reuters, this extensive, well-organised, malign project aimed: “to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of [Sinovac] vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China.” Sinovac was less high-tech than the prominent US COVID vaccines (which were high-priced and virtually unavailable at that time across the Global South) but Sinovac........

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