On Monday, in their first bilateral summit, Joe Biden will meet (virtually) Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Among other things on the agenda, Lopez Obrador is expected to ask Biden to share America’s vaccines with his country. With 186,000 deaths, Mexico has one of the world’s highest Covid-19 death tolls and it desperately needs these jabs. After Mexico’s Pfizer supply dried up, it has had to rely on Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, as well as China’s Sinovac and CanSino (which was developed by the Chinese military). Could America relieve this pressure?
It doesn’t appear so. Some reports suggest that Obrador will offer to repay any American vaccines with Mexico’s own supply later in the year, but even so, Biden is expected to say, ‘America First’.
It’s an attitude reflected across much of the West — the goal of western countries has been to inoculate their own populations, then start sharing.
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