Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine

If China ended up proving to have the best COVID vaccine compared to any other country I think various things would happen. Since China is a communist country, I believe they would try to bargain with other countries in order to get something out of distributing their vaccine to other places. They would want the best deal in order to help other countries, especially knowing that the world needs the vaccine. It would almost be like countries are at China's will. I also think there would be a huge shift in power in which China would be the most powerful country in today's world simply because of the pandemic. Global politics would be immensely effected if this one super power held complete control of the vaccine. Given the US and China are in the middle of an ongoing trade war, I think China would use the COVID vaccine to their advantage. China would use the vaccine as leverage to ease international relations. However, this would involve additional issues given the US has accused China of hacking the US for insight of their COVID research. Overall, I think that if China beats the US on their race to a COVID vaccine, the strained relationship between the two countries would get worse before it got better due to the struggle of power they've been facing. One country would have to compromise more than the other, and if China holds access to the vaccine first, it looks like that country would be the United States.