DW News published this video item, entitled “Has China blocked a BioNTech deal? | DW News” – below is their description.
BioNTech had contracted with the Chinese company Fosun to develop its COVID-19 vaccine for mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. But Taiwan laws block the import of any vaccine from China. Taiwan has for the first time directly accused China of blocking a deal with Germany’s BioNTech vaccine developer for COVID-19 jabs. At a ruling party meeting on Wednesday, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said:
‘We were close to completing the contract with the original German plant, but because of China’s intervention, up to now there’s been no way to complete it.’
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.