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  Plus the vaccines imported would be costlier compared to the ones made in China
  
  Well...yeah...but they also actually work, which seems to be the ultimate deciding factor here.
context: They seriously weren't using this before?
  It's like step one for high risk patients >
  
  C-C-P leadership purchased, imported and vaccinated themselves with 5000 Pfizer jabs as soon as they could back in 2021 and screwed the rest of the nation. >
  
  
  and screwed the rest of the nation.
  
  *still screwing.
  They won't get off the Sinovac train.  Even though the West, which had effective vaccines (Sinovac was marginal, at best), they freely admit that with the new strains that have developed, the 1st gen don't cut it.  Xi won't admit this, god knows why.  So, they double down on Sinovac, lockdowns, etc. >
  
  
  Xi won't admit this, god knows why.
  
  Hard to justify being an authoritarian when you get it wrong. >
  
  How could you say that, when he was clearly just reelected in a free and fair system? >
  
  Yeah, how can you say that without the Weibo-police immediately del... oh wait, this is Reddit. >
  
  On Monday, Chinese state media CCTV quoted President Xi Jinping as saying the country needed a more targeted health strategy to protect people's lives as the Covid situation in China changes. >
  
  It's a combination of factors in case of Pfizer. Yes nationalism is an issue but they also want complete immunity in cases from any side effects of the vaccine
  Plus the vaccine needs ultra cold storage which wasn't the case for AstraZeneca or local made vaccines (at least in the Indian case ) 
  Plus the vaccines imported would be costlier compared to the ones made in China or local countries
  Ofcourse this is not to takeaway any advantages that the Pfizer vaccine has but there are 2 sides to every issue