Comment Re: Small minded. (Score 1) 47
In addition to opposition from the people, Taiwan literally can't buy Sinovac, the law simply does not allow importing vaccines that are made in China.
Meanwhile, that negotiation between biontech and Taiwanese government happened. Biontech wanted a minimum ordering quantity of 30M jabs, but the Taiwanese government is only willing to purchase 2M jabs because they've bought 5M jabs from Moderna and wants to rely on locally produced vaccines (Medigen). Also, at that time, Taiwan pretty much have 0 domestic cases and it's life as usual, and demand for vaccine is pretty weak.