The US recently claimed that it has provided more vaccines than every other country in the world combined. China has provided more than 1.4 billion doses of vaccines to more than 100 countries and international organizations, and will step up efforts to provide two billion doses to the world this year, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on October 11. While US president Joe Biden announced that the country had shipped over 110 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to 65 nations.