Xi Jinping ‘unwilling to take a better vaccine from the West’, US intel says

Another official says any Chinese greenlight to Western vaccines seems ‘fairly far-fetched’

Xi Jinping will not allow Western vaccines to be used in China, according to US director of national intelligence Avril Haines.

On Sunday, Ms Haines pointed to the Chinese president’s reliance on the country’s indigenous Sinovac vaccine.

Mr Xi “is unwilling to take a better vaccine from the West and is instead relying on a vaccine in China that’s just not nearly as effective against Omicron”, she said.