GlobalPrint: How Covid vaccine diplomacy is helping India is win back its neighbourhood

India is catching up with vaccine diplomacy. It will buy about 10 million doses from the Serum Institute of India (SII) and later Bharat Biotech to give free Covid-19 vaccines to all the countries in South Asia — except for Pakistan, which will be a part of China's vaccine push in South Asia. China is also expanding its diplomatic and political influence in Nepal, with the CCP training the Nepal Communist Party, while India is using vaccines to improve relations with Bangladesh to make the most of the 50th anniversary of Bangladeshi independence. ThePrint's National and Strategic Affairs Editor Jyoti Malhotra analyses this Sino-Indian vaccine diplomacy power struggle, and more, in her column Global Print.----more----Read Jyoti Malhotra's column here:https://theprint.in/opinion/global-print/in-south-asia-a-vaccine-diplomacy-has-begun-will-indias-efficacy-outdo-chinas/583671/