Why China sticks with COVID lockdowns as West returns to normalcy

By Philip Lenczycki Daily Caller News Foundation Advertisement – story continues below Chinese President Xi Jinping is sticking with lockdowns while the West returns to normalcy because China's national vaccine is relatively ineffective at protecting against COVID-19, a medical expert told The Daily Caller News Foundation. China's lockdowns, missing vaccine drug trial data and the failure of its "vaccine diplomacy" program are evidence that Sinopharm , China's national pharmaceutical company, developed and marketed an inferior vaccine, Prof. Peter Pitts , president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest , told TheDCNF. Pitts argued that Sinopharm's vaccine exposes patients…