It strikes me that if we had some of these supply chains, obviously, in the United States, preferably, but if not in the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere, it would have a dual purpose.
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I think we are entering an era that I think there is going to be--the best way to say it is biomedical nationalism.
They have, very frankly, made no effort to hide the fact that these vaccines come with strings attached.
the interim Government of President Guaido is a legitimate government and we are trying to strengthen both the leverage and credibility of the pro-democracy movement in Venezuela.
Donating 10 million vaccines to a country that does not have health care infrastructure to distribute them... is that a major factor in how this is being decided?
A common story that we heard was that when it comes to vaccines, we think the American vaccines are the best and you are giving them to us.
We have seen that, of course, from the Chinese Communist Party. We have seen it from Putin's Russia.
We ought to revisit some of those tax agreements that, I guess, went away in the 1990s.





