China offers COVID vaccines to Taiwan amid cross-strait sparring


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Taiwan, until recently a COVID success story, has received only slightly more than 700,000 vaccine doses for its more than 23 million people. © Reuters May 25, 2021 10:31 JST | China Copy Copied BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -- China on Monday offered to urgently send COVID-19 vaccines to Taiwan to help it battle a sharp rise in coronavirus infections, drawing an angry response from Taipei and a swipe from Washington, which said U.S. vaccines did not have strings attached. China and Chinese-claimed Taiwan have sparred repeatedly during the pandemic. Taipei has accused Beijing of spreading fake news and trying to limit...