Bill Gates needs someone following him around yelling about how he personally prevented the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine formula from being made freely available. 24/7, every day of the rest of his life.
Diplomacy is bad. If you want to exert foreign influence, you're supposed to bomb people, not give them health care. Has two centuries of Monroe Doctrine taught Beijing nothing?!
You have to understand how confusing it is. American diplomacy is typically done with the tip of a missile, so altruism is a wholly foreign concept vis a vis diplomacy.
Late 2018 Bolsonaro kicked a lot of Cuban doctors out of Brazil, which immediately meant a lot of rural/poor/peripheral regions lost all medical services, because he didn't want to pay them "because Cuba". A decision that definitely killed and harmed a lot of people all by itself.
The funniest bit on that was people believing that Brazilian doctors would go away from their luxuries and wealth in the urban centers to go fix this instead of the more sensible thought “i am pretty sure we have got these doctors from cuba because they did not want to do that”
Even when you look up specific terms about their medical system (I was looking for purposes of enrollment down there) in a positive light, you get hit with so many of the 'giving everyone access to medical care is bad, actually' articles.
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i love that the title is basically "china does aid as a way to get diplomatic influence" as this is not the most normal thing in diplomacy
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Bill Gates needs someone following him around yelling about how he personally prevented the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine formula from being made freely available. 24/7, every day of the rest of his life.
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Diplomacy is bad. If you want to exert foreign influence, you're supposed to bomb people, not give them health care. Has two centuries of Monroe Doctrine taught Beijing nothing?!
You have to understand how confusing it is. American diplomacy is typically done with the tip of a missile, so altruism is a wholly foreign concept vis a vis diplomacy.
That actually makes a lot of sense, if china was drone striking iran or similar with vaccines american support would rise
"What the fuck?! Saving peoples' lives makes them think well of you? Why the fuck was I not informed of this before now?"
How they always make it sound like some sinister scheme
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How hard is it to find articles about how Cuban doctors are bad, somehow? I'm guessing it's extremely easy.
EDIT: it's extremely easy.
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Late 2018 Bolsonaro kicked a lot of Cuban doctors out of Brazil, which immediately meant a lot of rural/poor/peripheral regions lost all medical services, because he didn't want to pay them "because Cuba". A decision that definitely killed and harmed a lot of people all by itself.
The funniest bit on that was people believing that Brazilian doctors would go away from their luxuries and wealth in the urban centers to go fix this instead of the more sensible thought “i am pretty sure we have got these doctors from cuba because they did not want to do that”
Even when you look up specific terms about their medical system (I was looking for purposes of enrollment down there) in a positive light, you get hit with so many of the 'giving everyone access to medical care is bad, actually' articles.
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