China Will Steal U.S. Vaccine IP Via Waiver, GOP Senators Say

Senate Republicans are calling on top Biden administration officials to walk back support of an international plan to waive Covid-19 vaccine IP protections, calling the decision a “giveaway” to China and India that will only promote “vaccine nationalism.”

Countries like China that regularly steal U.S. intellectual property began urging the World Trade Organization to waive IP rights “almost immediately after these vaccines were proven to work,” Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) wrote in a Wednesday letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai.

“These nations are falsely claiming that granting such a waiver ...