Вакцинная дипломатия России и Китая как маркер сотрудничества государств в сфере достижения параметров устойчивого развития

The article is aimed at clarifying the phenomenon of vaccine diplomacy between Russia and China as an instrument of “soft power” policy and a form of public diplomacy in the context of achieving sustainable development goals. The relevance of the stated topic is due to the fact that vaccine diplomacy, having experienced an unprecedented rise during the coronavirus pandemic, still remains an insufficiently studied political phenomenon in the system of modern international relations. When writing the article, the author relied on the theoretical and methodological provisions of the concept of “soft power” by J. Naya and the doctrines of public diplomacy in world politics. A statistical method has also been used to analyze the production of anti-coronavirus vaccines and their distribution. Vaccine diplomacy between Russia and China is presented in the general context of the transformation of the modern model of international relations, prompting the leading states of our time to pay significant attention to the problems of sustainable development as a means of forming their. The article substantiates the need to deepen the cooperation between China and Russia in the area of vaccine diplomacy to counter the spread of pharmaceutical products by Western states.