The country where the coronavirus originated is attempting to regain some international prestige by offering to immunise millions of people around the world for free.
From the moment the first cases came to light in the Wuhan wet market last December, the coronavirus pandemic represented a profound loss of face for China. A superpower-in-waiting, proudly but defensively emerging on to the world stage, has inadvertently unleashed the worst global catastrophe since the Second World War.
You didn’t need to talk about the “China virus” or believe in conspiracies about leaks from bio labs to recognise the humiliation for the communist government of Xi Jinping. But now Beijing is attempting to win back international prestige by providing the solution to the problem that it incubated in the first place. Source: The Times
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