JOE BIDEN’S decision to suspend Covid vaccine patent protections, to allow more of the miracle drugs to be manufactured with greater speed worldwide, has been described as the reinstatement of common decency and international morality by President Michael

But it’s not as simple as that.

There is a legitimate concern that the know-how developed in the States will be snaffled by dictatorial international rivals, particularly China and Russia, for their own ends.

It will also have the effect of moving jobs out of America and Europe, and discourage the drive for future inventions.

Why should Western investors, including pension funds, put their money at risk developing medicines that could end up being produced in some open-air slave camp near Wuhan?