China is actually doing what you're describing with it's vaccine development. It's sort of a geopolitical power move for them, plus they don't have enough peopl

China is actually doing what you're describing with it's vaccine development. It's sort of a geopolitical power move for them, plus they don't have enough people domestically with the virus to run clinical trials anymore. As well, there's less of a potential PR-hangup for a Chinese company if they have to grease the local wheels with some cash 'donations,' whereas Pfizer and Moderna probably wouldn't want to be caught bribing people in the context of a clinical trial (I used to work for a Chinese immunodiagnostics company that did business in the developing world. It's just how things work some places if you want to enter a market and don't have the right political connections). It's not Africa-focused particularly, but they're running tons of clinical trials across the developing world, and will give these countries early-access that they would not otherwise have with the Western vaccines. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/global-push-covid-19-vaccines-china-aims-win-friends-and-cut-deals https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/global-push-covid-19...