SteelBird
Colonel
You're not against donation -- that's the bottom line!Don't have problem if China donated 5 millions additional doses to Vietnam or any countries in need to fight coronavirus. However, it is just a thankless gesture. Vietnam government and Vietnamese people wouldn't appreciate it, and demonize of Chinese vaccines wouldn't stop.
In previous donation, Vietnam didn't honor its promise by refusing to vaccinate Chinese in Vietnam first or vaccinate Vietnamese near the border first until China filed a formal complaint. Vietnam is the only country that required diplomatic pressure to honor its promise.
In addition, Vietnam has reject donation until now and never placed any orders for Chinese vaccines. I think if it is given a choice, Vietnam wouldn't ask for donation. Furthermore, these 5 millions doses supposed to be a sales order but now Vietnam demanded these vaccines to be donated.
Vietnam has placed an order of 51 millions doses of Pfizer, 40 + 20 millions doses of Sputnik, and 30 millions doses of AstraZeneca. But at the moment, Vietnam has not placed any order of Chinese vaccines except demanding donation. Donating to a nation that you know would bite your hand and ungrateful just depressing and foolish. But helping Vietnam is helping SEA and Chinese border. So I am not against donation.
I don't like the Vietnamese government either. But if you look at the big picture, China needs a friend more than a foo. At least someone not talking bad about you. You don't just donate it at their demand. You need to talk to them to make them change their attitude before making donation. I think the words "non-refundable donation" means 无偿援助 or non-repay aid (whatever you translate it).
When Covid was under contained in Vietnam, some Vietnamese netizens said "rather die than using Chinese vaccine", "give me the high quality vaccine and I will pay the extra", and so on. Now I see some change their words saying inactivated vaccines are safer and willing to take one as soon as it's available.