Trump Softened Expressing Willingness To Partner With China For The COVID-19 Vaccine

Xi Jinping and Donald Trump (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA - The President of the United States (US) Donald Trump has stated that he is willing to partner with China in the supply of the COVID-19 vaccine. This statement is interesting given the tensions between Beijing and Washington that continue to increase.

Not only China. Trump opens up as many partnerships as possible to bring a potent vaccine to the US. "We are willing to work with whoever will do well," Trump said.

The statement was made by Trump one day after the arrival of good news from vaccine testing by CanSino Biologics Inc with the Chinese military research unit. In the trials that were conducted, the researchers stated that the potential vaccine provided an immune response in the majority of recipients in the carefully monitored intermediate stage study.

The potential vaccine CanSino is one of several vaccines showing promising results in human trials. In addition, there are vaccines for Moderna Inc in the US and BioNTech SE in Germany in partnership with drug manufacturer Pfizer Inc ..

In addition to the potential vaccines above, intermediate clinical trial data for vaccines developed by Oxford University researchers also showed good results. The development was carried out by Oxford in collaboration with the Swedish-British company AstraZeneca (AZN.L).

Various parties highlighted Trump's softening. Previously, Trump was one of the front men who consistently blamed China for the pandemic. China is considered incompetent in dealing with the corona virus that has spread in its territory to the rest of the world, including the 140 thousand US citizens who have died.

"I think we're going to have some very good results. We're already testing. Nobody thought that would be possible," Trump said.

"I think we're going to see something over the next fairly short period of time - maybe a very short period of time, in terms of a very good treatment and vaccine," he said.