Western Covid Medicine to China’s Rescue


Source: wsj.com wsj.com

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One conceit of Chinese leader Xi Jinping is that the West is in terminal decline and the Communist Party is destined to dominate the world in technology and politics. So don’t expect the Party media to celebrate the country’s emergency acceptance of Western Covid medicine. Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Co. said Tuesday that Chinese users of its health app can now sign up to get doses of the Western-made BioNTech mRNA vaccine in Hong Kong. That’s happy news for affluent Chinese passport holders who can hop a flight to Hong Kong or nearby Macau, where vaccine tourism has been booming since...