Submission statement: the US launched a campaign targeted at countries in Southeast Asia like the Philippines starting in mid 2020 to undermine the Chinese aid. Initially that started as conspiracies around Chinese supplied masks and testing kits, and eventually morphed into anti vax skepticism against Chinese vaccines. However that led to skepticism of all vaccines and made the Philippines the country with the lowest vaccine uptake rate in the entire region.
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Submission statement: the US launched a campaign targeted at countries in Southeast Asia like the Philippines starting in mid 2020 to undermine the Chinese aid. Initially that started as conspiracies around Chinese supplied masks and testing kits, and eventually morphed into anti vax skepticism against Chinese vaccines. However that led to skepticism of all vaccines and made the Philippines the country with the lowest vaccine uptake rate in the entire region.
The Pentagon targeted “allies” in southeast Asia.