Secret talks have been launched with India over vaccine export restrictions that threaten to slow the UK rollout of jabs, the Mail can reveal. Its chief executive Adar Poonawalla said no further doses would be sent to Britain until the Indian government gave the go-ahead. ‘India has allowed five million doses to go to the UK. Pictured: Where Britain gets its vaccine supply fromBecause Britain sees an alliance with democratic India as crucial in curbing the belligerence of the other gigantic state in the Indo-Pacific region –China, a one-party dictatorship run by an unabashed dictator. In any choice between India and China there is no doubt the British people’s instinctive sympathy will be with India.

Source: The Nation March 18, 2021 22:52 UTC