India vaccine diplomacy

If vaccine diplomacy is the new great game, it is being played wrong by all sides, with the risk that no one will be left a winner.

Despite vaccine hesitancy and a shortage of doses, South Asian countries have fared fairly well in vaccinating their populations.

India’s COVID-19 vaccine production reflects its critical global position. The country is manufacturing its own, plus European, American, and Russian, vaccines.

Several countries that received Chinese vaccines are questioning its efficacy and pricing.

An alliance between Western technology and Indian manufacturing capabilities may still be crucial to produce cheap vaccines for the world.

Mongolia has received vaccines not only from neighbors China and Russia, but from India and COVAX as well.

Vaccine diplomacy has given way to vaccine nationalism as India struggles with a massive spike in infections.