While Taiwan strived to speed up COVID-19 vaccine deliveries from its international allies in a recent surge of availability, Beijing’s offer to help did not win the confidence of Taiwan people who considered the proffered vaccine to be a political ploy, a Taiwanese scholar said. Recently, Su Tzu-Yun, director of the Defense Strategy and Resources Division of the Institute for National Defense and Security Research in Taiwan, told The Epoch Times the reasons behind Taiwan’s reluctance to receive Chinese-made vaccines. Taiwan, a model territory once known for successfully handling the Covid-19 outbreak, reported 295 new cases and one death on May 20, making it the sixth consecutive day of over 100 domestic infections, official data shows. The Central Epidemic Command Center of Taiwan introduced a Level 3 COVID-19 alert nationwide on May 19. In the past week, over 1500 locally transmitted cases were reported. Only about one percent of Taiwan’s …