China’s failure to develop coronavirus vaccines that work has resulted in societal chaos gripping many Chinese cities amid draconian lockdowns.
Beijing’s reasoning for the lockdowns has been to prevent COVID’s spread through the unvaccinated populace. But analysts say the Chinese Communist Party also embraced the lockdowns over the past year as a tool to control the masses during the politically sensitive months surrounding the recent CCP Congress.
While that factor has loomed in the backdrop, international health experts say China’s weak vaccines, coupled with Beijing’s ongoing refusal to allow the use of highly effective Western-designed mRNA vaccines, is coursing beneath the crisis facing the CCP.