Taiwan Wants German Vaccines. China May Be Standing in Its Way.

The two sides have traded accusations about whether political motivations are keeping the Taiwanese people from receiving immunizations amid the island’s first major Covid-19 outbreak.

‘This Day Was Bound to Come’: Taiwan Confronts a Covid Flare-Up

The island’s border controls had shielded it from the worst of the pandemic. But new variants and slow vaccinations gave the virus an opening.