Once again, Aussies rely on Beijing for protection from Canberra

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This is how entrenched the mass immigration economic model is in Canberra despite all of the evidence against it and the population at large hating it:

Australia recognized China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd. Covid-19 shot and India-made AstraZeneca Plc jabs, paving the way for overseas travelers and fee-paying foreign students who have received those vaccinations to enter the country.

The nation’s top drugs regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, said the shots should be “recognized vaccines” in determining incoming travelers as being inoculated, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday.

This is the list of (mostly) Third World countries that accept the Chinese vaccine:

Albania Finland Paraguay
Armenia Georgia Philippines
Austria Greece Serbia
Azerbaijan Hong Kong South Africa
Bangladesh Iceland Spain
Brazil Indonesia Sri Lanka
Cambodia Kazakhstan Sweden
Cape Verde Kyrgyzstan Switzerland
Chile Laos Tajikistan
China Macedonia Thailand
Colombia Malaysia Togo
Cyprus Mexico Tunisia
Dominican Republic Nepal Turkey
East Timor Netherlands Ukraine
Ecuador Oman Uruguay
Egypt Pakistan Zimbabwe
El Salvador Panama
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But even they are turning away:

In the early days of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, Chinese shots saved countless lives. They kick-started inoculation programs across Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, while richer countries hoarded scarce mRNA shots from Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc.

But many governments that once relied on vaccines from Sinovac Biotech Ltd. or Sinopharm Group Co Ltd. are now turning to options from the U.S. and Europe instead, as concerns mount about Chinese vaccines’ efficacy against the delta strain and the Western stranglehold on mRNA supplies grows looser. That preference may already be showing up in China’s customs data, where exports of human vaccines dropped 21% in August to $1.96 billion from $2.48 billion in July, after rising steadily since Dec. 2020.

Why? Because the vaccine doesn’t work well. Why do we think that China itself still has a zero COVID policy?

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But no, no such policy for Australia. No protecting the public from poorly vaccinated students and tourists carrying the plague. No acknowledgment that the Chinese diaspora should not be allowed to grow at all given the malign influences of Beijing.

Just more warm bodies to destroy wages and living standards as fast as mass immigration can manage it.

Once again, Australians must turn to Beijing to protect themselves from Canberra.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.