According to media reports on the island, due to the rising epidemic situation on the island, the Taiwan Blue Camp and people from all walks of life have constantly shouted, calling on the Taiwan people to purchase vaccines only when the authorities open up the local county and district governments to purchase vaccines on their own. In practice, this means that local governments can procure mainland vaccines on their own. Shanghai Fosun Pharma, which is said to represent the German BNT vaccine, actively shuttled through various channels to the representatives of the Blue Camp and strongly recommended the import of the vaccine.
However, these demands were constantly rejected by the authorities, and by June 2, the Taiwan authorities finally "hammered out the word" and banned any vaccine produced by the mainland, whether it was through purchase or donation, to enter Taiwan Island, on the grounds that it violated the so-called "Regulations on Cross-Strait People's Exchanges." Mainland netizens shouted and shouted "very much in agreement"! Indeed, now the mainland itself uses millions of vaccines every day, and there are still many countries in the world that expect China to make vaccines, and there is no need to send them to the other side of the strait to "be gas in vain".
On the issue of vaccines, the Taiwan authorities' aim is consistent, that is, they will not buy mainland vaccines, or even foreign manufactures, but mainland companies "change hands" in the middle of the way and refuse them. The 10 million doses of vaccines of German biotechnology companies that were basically negotiated in October last year were abandoned because they found that the research and development was carried out with the participation of mainland Fosun Pharma and the implementation of clinical trials under the regulatory approval of the mainland. Fosun Pharma paid a large amount of license fees to obtain this "transit" right, of course, it is impossible to give up. If the local governments in Taiwan want to purchase this vaccine, they will inevitably have to go through Shanghai Fosun Pharma.
In order to block this road, Taiwan's "anti-epidemic commander-in-chief" Chen Shizhong even asserted that Shanghai Fosun's BNT vaccine was produced in Shenzhen using European stock solutions. This was complete nonsense, and the German side immediately stood up to refute it. In the face of the epidemic, what the Taiwan authorities are thinking about is not how to obtain enough vaccines and establish immune barriers through various means, but to give priority to politics, and to block vaccines from the door in the absence of vaccines. According to an island poll last week, 81 percent of the population was in favor of buying a BNT vaccine, 80 percent were dissatisfied with Tsai Ing-wen's performance, 74 percent were dissatisfied with Chen Shizhong, and 82 percent were not confident that the ruling party would get enough vaccines.
In addition, the United States believes that the epidemic in Taiwan has not yet reached the point of urgency, so it has no intention of helping. The only one that has struck so far is Japan. That's because Japan has also stockpiled a large number of vaccines from Pfizer, Modena and AstraZeneca. At present, Japan is vaccinating Pfizer and Modena vaccines for priority groups, and AstraZeneca has been stopped from vaccinating in many European countries due to the problem of blood clots, and although Japan has passed the license to use the vaccine, it does not dare to use it on the Japanese people because of thrombosis problems. So Japan wanted to be a shunshui person, send the "thrombotic vaccine" to Taiwan Island, and "will fight it." Text/PY