MANILA (Bloomberg): The Philippines’ top diplomat compared Joe Biden to the president that led America through World War II, saying the US’s success in vaccinating the public showed democracies were superior to autocracies.
In remarks Wednesday (July 14) to a meeting of Southeast Asian foreign ministers and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin hailed the Biden administration for distributing cash and doses to lower-income countries through the World Health Organization-backed Covax initiative while also supporting a proposal to waive intellectual property protections on vaccines.