Chinese leader Xi Jinping pushed world leaders to accept China-made vaccines while lodging complaints about Western inquiry into the COVID-19 virus origin during a virtual address at the Group of 20 summit in Rome. Speaking on Oct. 30 via video link, Xi boasted about the country’s vaccine outreach, which saw 1.6 billion doses of Chinese vaccines distributed around the world, adding that Beijing is working with 16 countries to jointly manufacture COVID-19 shots. He called for countries “to treat different vaccines equally and advance mutual recognition of vaccines” based on the World Health Organization’s emergency use list, which includes two developed in China. The broadening of vaccine terms would allow jabs from Sinovac Biotech and China’s state-owned Sinopharm—apparently less effective than their Western counterparts—to be brought into wider use. Xi, who chose to skip the first in-person G20 meeting in two years, has not set foot outside of the country …