How the Pentagon ran a secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the US military launched a clandestine program to discredit China’s Sinovac vaccine, in part, as payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the virus.
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One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk. The covert operation reveals the dangerous intersection of geopolitics and global health during a time of unprecedented crisis
Links to our key studies and sources:
00:36 Reuters investigation into US Covid psyops campaign - https://www.reuters.com/investigates/...
2:08 Reuters investigation into 2019 operation - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trum...
2:32 NYT on rich countries hoarding vaccines - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/us...
2:59 China announces it delivered more than 350m vaccine doses - https://bridgebeijing.com/our-publica...
3:23 US loses its spot to China as Southeast Asia’s most favoured ally, survey shows - https://www.iseas.edu.sg/wp-content/u...
4:41 Philippines vaccination rates - https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/...
5:00 Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy could lead to thousands of extra deaths - https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/21831...
5:26 Which vaccines have had the greatest global reach - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-5623...
5:44 National security officials have advocated for more aggressive psy-ops campaigns - https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion...
6:03 How vaccine misinformation made the COVID-19 death toll worse - https://www.ajtmh.org/view/journals/t...
6:11 Campaigners say it's time to ban military operations from interfering in public health - https://www.cgdev.org/blog/its-time-b...
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