Xi Jinping seeks victory over Trump in race for a Covid-19 vaccine <br /> <br />In total, five vaccines developed by Chinese companies are being tested on humans, the most in any country. <br /> <br />President Xi Jinping’s government is throwing the might of the Chinese state behind the country’s vaccine developers as the world races to make a shot against the coronavirus. <br /> <br />The sheer scale and speed of China’s effort ratchets up pressure on the US, where President Donald Trump’s administration has launched a program called Operation Warp Speed to accelerate vaccine research and development. <br /> <br />Xi has promised to share any successful vaccine globally, and the Chinese president would wield immense geopolitical clout if his country produces one of the world’s first working shots. <br /> <br />Government and private equity money has gone into companies like Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech Ltd., which in May began the second stage of testing for its vaccine. <br /> <br />The Chinese efforts were on show late Friday, when an earl
