*Our decision to structure patent and copyright monopolies in a way that allows for a small number of people to get incredibly rich is because we have politicians who like very rich people.*

If China is on track to provide vaccines to most of the world by early 2022, it seems that a western investment in increased vaccine production would be a waste now, because it is too late to help. It would, reportedly, produce enough vaccine to vaccinate the world by the end of 2022, but long before that it won't be needed any more.

Why is China going faster? I suspect it has more to do with the (low) competence of the western business system than with the competence of western engineers. This too is due to having politicians who like very rich people.