Replication Data for: Calling the Shots through Health Diplomacy: China’s World-Wide Distribution of Anti-Covid Vaccines and the International Order (doi:10.7910/DVN/JVHPJL)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: Calling the Shots through Health Diplomacy: China’s World-Wide Distribution of Anti-Covid Vaccines and the International Order

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/JVHPJL

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2024-01-23

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Bibliographic Citation:

Interactions, International, 2024, "Replication Data for: Calling the Shots through Health Diplomacy: China’s World-Wide Distribution of Anti-Covid Vaccines and the International Order", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JVHPJL, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:a6y3JBIyvEeN4InVXQDZZg== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: Calling the Shots through Health Diplomacy: China’s World-Wide Distribution of Anti-Covid Vaccines and the International Order

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/JVHPJL

Authoring Entity:

Interactions, International (University of Pittsburgh)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Interactions, International

Depositor:

Interactions, International

Date of Deposit:

2023-12-15

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JVHPJL

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, China, Health Diplomacy, Power Transitions, Vaccines, Covid-19

Abstract:

The donation and sale of vaccines are diplomatic tools that have impact well beyond health policies. May Chinese Covid-related vaccine diplomacy be understood beyond reactive terms vis-à-vis power disputes with the West, in particularly the United States? We then scrutinize the drivers of China’s vaccine diplomacy, assessing whether Beijing privileged the expansion of its diplomatic leverage in the Global South. By employing logit and tobit models in the analysis of a cross-sectional dataset covering 213 countries, we examine the probability of countries receiving vaccines from China. We find that low-income states, in particular, and middle-income ones and those with more Covid deaths were more likely to receive vaccines through either donations or purchases. For donations, states that integrate the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and/or oppose the United States at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) were also privileged. China’s vaccine diplomacy has therefore a twofold purpose. First, the expansion of the country’s soft power in the Global South. Second, the consolidation of the BRI bilateral ties and an anti-US allied network. Hence, current global health initiatives cannot be detached from debates on the contestation of the liberal international order (LIO) and China’s dual role as a responsible stakeholder and most successful emerging power that has the potential to challenge American hegemony. Moreover, the findings also suggest that bilateral donor-recipient flows may be less politicized than what prior works on development aid and health diplomacy have claimed.

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Other Study Description Materials

File Description--f7675599

File: MAIN_DATA.tab

  • Number of cases: 213

  • No. of variables per record: 25

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

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Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

country

f7675599 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:VIB/4HHZLPIfBtZiKu2zhw==

wbcode

f7675599 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:+Qa6LVGeNlzm0KtT9gxRrw==

year

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 2020.0; StDev 0.0; Max. 2020.0; Valid 213.0; Min. 2020.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:r06QtlWoOl0wwyNUHnN1Rw==

developing countries dummy

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 213.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.8873239436619718; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.3169412677563706

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:dwk/0CHT9S3sYHOQNmValw==

Vaccine Count

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.7641509433962265; Valid 212.0; Max. 7.0; StDev 1.3174144345170915; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:bFqjoGkkF/JSuBcPbtbUQA==

Per capita GDP (log)

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.5299993602911492; Min. 5.438345432281494; Valid 192.0; Mean 8.736274604996046; Max. 12.081294059753418

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:dI1h9BF30vsd5+FWQ0qz7w==

Southeast Asia dummy

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 213.0; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.3169412677563707; Mean 0.11267605633802821

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:RFMasyagO1rs8TI8bJI/3g==

Sub-Saharan Africa dummy

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; StDev 0.4277449226365526; Mean 0.23943661971830985; Min. 0.0; Valid 213.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:vEJxqG3CGIYZ6D24iE6VjA==

Latin America dummy

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 213.0; Mean 0.21126760563380276; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.4091694172487631;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:azkE4/K2QsdVcrfuJLzlSA==

MENA dummy

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 213.0; Mean 0.09389671361502348; StDev 0.29237209530286923; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:QWUmhTsBZVzVMPYza6fgPA==

Central Asia dummy

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; StDev 0.2218269434550052; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.05164319248826289; Valid 213.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:QWGL5yzpzt6CGtg48AcRZg==

Freedom House index

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 7.0; Min. 1.0; Valid 185.0; Mean 4.545945945945946; StDev 2.0065916639311365;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:t41RqRuqdfzt3fimWkjkkQ==

Covid Deaths per head (log)

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 4.9280143893660515; Min. -1.2039730548858643; Valid 213.0; StDev 2.311555270039672; Max. 8.639233589172363;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:63SjGZMjMOlZa/gxd5qS/Q==

BRI dummy

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.49469600245760653; Mean 0.41981132075471694; Min. 0.0; Valid 212.0; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:8vdInLdc6D7V315u87gLag==

Trade with China share

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 1.5406700549647212E-4; Mean 0.41978746481319484; StDev 1.2907588662622005; Max. 12.460990905761719; Valid 190.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:mCCv69eqGu0TCBuAmrR9Yg==

Middle Income Country dummy

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Mean 0.2347417840375587; Max. 1.0; Valid 213.0; StDev 0.4248357662591851

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:j5q254z8j7RZBiIXOnWv5w==

Low Income Country dummy

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 213.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.3615023474178403; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.48156740573677537;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:KkEE8gDeH2r9nsZhQro3aw==

Vaccine dummy

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 212.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.5094339622641509; StDev 0.5010942153726795; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ewZc4VTVR7CDTarXJWjShA==

Vaccine Purchase

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 24.82766321767551; Valid 211.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 7.213647379182384; Max. 214.17999267578125

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:wldoEf7BPiA+TfOp3AqhTA==

Vaccine Donation

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.5277030343604734; Valid 211.0; StDev 1.4573582851873792; Max. 12.75; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:mF0lRocSSZbLzo0gOaUoEg==

PTA US

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 213.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.24882629107981222; StDev 0.43335139001744016; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:20f+E1Bsdv4QJxIME37JHA==

PTA

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Mean 0.09389671361502346; Valid 213.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.2923720953028698;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:IMPxEmfYNPnXUAtjr8kAeQ==

UNGA index with US

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.10606049746274948; Mean 0.31853875989715263; Valid 180.0; StDev 0.157118017704012; Max. 0.9606742262840271;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ZlPnlm3xp4jtn5ObW+cK+Q==

UNGA index with China

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.7926478683116049; Max. 0.96875; Min. 0.23563219606876373; Valid 179.0; StDev 0.1234317373421813;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:753SZpiuD0fYB4ekOGaV3g==

Other Vaccines

f7675599 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.416763712526445; Valid 213.0; Mean 1.7136150234741785; Min. 0.0; Max. 8.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:RmYXYooSCeP5k/B8i+gxhw==

Other Study-Related Materials

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