Vaccine diplomacy: China, Indonesia agree to cooperate in fight against Covid-19


HONG KONG, Oct 11 (SCMP): China and Indonesia have agreed to work more closely together to fight Covid-19 as Beijing on Friday sought to bolster ties with a regional neighbour through what some analysts are calling “vaccine diplomacy”.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told visiting Indonesian special envoy Luhut Binsar Panjaitan at a meeting in Kunming, the capital of southwest China’s Yunnan province, that vaccine programmes could provide a new focus for relations between Beijing and Jakarta.

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