MANILA, Philippines — China’s donation of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines arrived in the country with no “strings attached,” President Rodrigo Duterte assured on Sunday.
He said the Chinese government did not ask for anything in return for its donation of 600,000 doses of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines.
“China never asked for anything. China has been giving us everything but never asked anything from us actually,” he said in a press conference after the turnover ceremony of the Sinovac vaccines at Villamor Air Base in Pasay City.
He, however, assured China that he will not allow the United States (U.S.) to store and maintain nuclear weapons in the Philippines.
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