A U.S. senate budget hearing revealed that the Chinese regime has refused to contribute to, but receives money from, the global COVID-19 vaccination program, known as COVAX, which is financially supported by the U.S. “China started this [pandemic], refused to participate in COVAX, won’t contribute money, won’t contribute vaccines, but then COVAX turned it around and is paying them for their vaccines. This is odd, strange to say the least,” Senator Jim Risch (R-ID), ranking member of Foreign Relations Committee, said at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request hearing on July 14. “Chinese vaccine, it seems to be low quality as compared to what we are producing,” Risch said. The senator asked Samantha Power, USAID administrator, why COVAX buys Chinese COVID-19 vaccines. Power simply responded that the U.S. pharmaceutical factories could not produce enough vaccines to supply the market, and that COVAX had no …