What worries me is the chance that we will see another super virus in a few years except one country already has vaccines developed on day one and will not share the information on them.
I feel like in this economically connected world, that would be a sort of global politics suicide. It would be one of the few acts that would likely galvanize... everyone. The leaders of those nations would be pariahs in a way that even a nation like N. Korea is not.
For the nation's without a vaccine, the leaders there likely would be quite motivated to act and enjoy a great deal of support at home.
Remember China and the USA were in a full bore trade war and despite some mud flinging and half-truths,essentially the global health system was kept informed.
The genome was shared. At least four competitors in global economic terms (China, Russia, the EU and the USA) all developed vaccines.
This is not like pre-hydrogen bomb information hoarding. The techniques behind mRNA are taught worldwide. Most medicines come from India, which was a leading non-aligned economy for years and years.
In general sharing vaccine information with your enemy is considered a good thing by generals. No good army wants to get involved in biological warfare at this time as it is too risky as to turning against you.
The above does leave room for bad armies. Some tiny insignificant nation might do this. China isn't insignificant, and not stupid. Even in an all out war they would still share virus and vaccine information with their enemies as there is nothing to lose and goodwill to gain.
