FOCUS: China, India, Russia seek influence through vaccine diplomacy

China, India and Russia are stepping up efforts to expand their influence by providing coronavirus vaccines to developing and middle-income countries, while advanced countries scramble to secure doses of U.S.- and European-made vaccines for their own citizens.China is donating locally produced vaccines to 53 countries that have requested them, mainly in Southeast Asia and Africa."In the recent couple of days we read and heard a lot about Chinese vaccines going overseas and being embraced by many developing countries," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a press conference on F…READ FULL ARTICLE