If India were to request 100 million vaccines doses from China, I think China should sell them to India.
If delivered over a month, that is only 25% of total production capacity in China. And production in China is still ramping up.
Plus China is still at zero cases per day.
That's at least 50 million people in India, who will personally know they have received a Chinese vaccine.
It's much harder to be anti-China in such a situation. And the politicians will really understand there is no alternative to China in many situations.
Plus we can't have an uncontrolled outbreak in India creating even more COVID variants.
But of course, would Modi swallow his pride and ever make such a request?
100 million vaccines are useless for India. Right now they have to contain the virus and prevent patients from dying enmasse, something vaccination could not achieve unless vaccination rate covers 75% of the population.
Siege has a point here. The Jai Hind "Common Sense" crowd will just propagate the Chinese vaccine are fake and how ineffective the Chinese vaccine in reducing the death. i bet they would do that no matter how ridiculous it is.