This is what they said to Brazil.

Okay, you can have the vaccines,

but you're gonna need to take the Huawei tech as well.

You have to reverse your decision to not take Huawei.

And they did it, okay?

So that's vaccines plus industrial expansion and economic expansion, right?

That's how they think about it and that's not how we think about it. We like to think we're above all of that stuff,

but the fact is that geopolitics is a part of this

pandemic whether we like it or not and the and there it's gonna manifest itself in

lots of different ways. Welcome to post-Corona where we try to understand COVID-19's lasting impact on the economy,

culture, and geopolitics.

I'm Dan Sinor. China is in the midst of

China is in the midst of a global vaccination campaign.

According to published reports, China's government is supplying 10 times as many doses

to other countries as it is to citizens in its own country.

China's vaccination campaign is currently engaging 45 countries

spread across multiple continents.

Why?

For what?

What is China getting in return? And should the US also be engaged in vaccine

diplomacy? This is just one of many ways in which the pandemic has upended geopolitics as we know it.

To better understand how China seeks to transform a global crisis that originated in China

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