China has put its homegrown coronavirus vaccines on display for the first time, as the country where the contagion was discovered looks to shape the narrative surrounding the pandemic.
High hopes hang on the small vials of liquid on show at a Beijing trade fair this week -- vaccine candidates produced by Chinese companies Sinovac Biotech and Sinopharm.
China, which is facing a storm of foreign criticism over its early handling of the pandemic, has been trying to repurpose the story of COVID-19. In May, President Xi Jinping pledged to make any potential vaccine developed by China a "global public good". China's nationalistic tabloid Global Times reported last month that "the price of the vaccines will not be high.”
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