Putin and Xi providing vaccines abroad? Good
There is a new great game afoot. It is called vaccine diplomacy. This, at any rate, is what various experts on international power politics tell us. And we are being told how worrying it is that Russia and China are using distribution and even donation of their coronavirus vaccines as a means of boosting their influence and reputation across the world.
As usual, images express the idea better than words ever could — most powerfully Morten Morland’s cartoon on the front of The Spectator, which shows their presidents, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, carving up the globe, not with knives but syringes.… Seguir leyendo »