Covid-19 and makes it available to its Phone Number List population, it will actually have something of as in the 1950s, when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite terrestrial artificial. Russia would then have an advantage in a technological race that would bring Phone Number List prestige and economic benefits. In the case of not achieving it, the damage would be equally great. I cannot imagine Russia knowingly taking such a risk and, in that sense, I suppose it is Phone Number List convinced that it is on the right track. But this self-perception could be misleading. Why the investigation of a vaccine against the coronavirus became the new battlefield of geopolitics.
The development of vaccines, a strategic Phone Number List issue to overcome this crisis of the century, is indeed what we used to call "global collective goods". That is, the production of material or immaterial goods that are essential for much of the world, such as international security, free trade routes or an intact environment. Those who were leaders in the manufacture of these products traditionally determined international Phone Number List policy in other areas as well. Those were, in a way, the tools of the hegemonic countries. If vaccines are the new global collective goods, it is not surprising that a race for them has begun. However, there are two arguments that must be kept separate. Some say that this pandemic makes us see that we necessarily need to think globally, that we need, in Phone Number List a way, a global structural policy on these global health issues. The counter-argument says that now each country is mainly concerned with itself.
I don't think it is defined which Phone Number List argument will triumph. But if the second wins, then we really have a confrontation between countries, with all the ensuing consequences. This is likely to benefit no one in the long run. The big players currently Phone Number List seem to be Russia, the United States and China. Where does the European Union stand in this competition? The more than 150 promising developments for a vaccine that are listed in the WHO prove that there is currently a huge effort at different levels. So sooner or later there will be an effective Phone Number List vaccine. By the way, at any other time in history this would have been impossible. But the crucial question is: who will have access to the vaccine and who will benefit from it.