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Why China Has Several Debilitating Problems
Why is China suffering several debilitating problems due to the lack of an effective vaccine?
According to CanSino, and the last from Gao’s team in partnership with Anhui Zhifei Longcom, the effectiveness of the vaccines ranges from just over 50% to 79%, based on what the companies have said.
This is compared to Pfizer-BioNTech, which has an effectiveness of around 95%.
However, the Chinese vaccine’s actual effectiveness is up for debate.
Peter Zeihan, a geopolitical writer, consultant, and author, stated that the “Chinese vaccine does not work.”
The problem with getting information from China is that it is a centralised and dictatorial state, meaning precise information is hard to gather.
The state regularly gives false reporting; for example, the Chinese government accidentally discounted 100 million Chinese citizens.
Xi Jinping, leader of China
According to Peter Zeihan, China is a fascist regime which derives its legitimacy from economic success. Still, the economy is failing due to internal structural problems with the one-child policy that started in 1979, which led to the fall of the Chinese labour market.
