The customs office does not test nor does it approve vaccines. I would also not expect that the US companies give me the same vaccines from the same production sites.
> who doesn't trust the US standard
I trust EU standards. Which my government can influence.
> People struggle to come up with examples of where it helped things along.
Maybe you, I can come up with lots of examples. EU standards are one. Your view on standards and regulations differs from most people.
> Literally sacrificing lives for business interests in defiance of what a free market would do
The Chinese market is not free. That should be known.
> but I urge you to reconsider what species you are a part of, and what the implications are if the problems are being created by the regulators rather than the underlying reality.
Nations, organisations, science, companies, money, laws, politics, ideology, are all reality. You seem to live in a fantasy world of 'species'.
All your customs office has contributed here is a rubber stamp saying "the work the Americans have already done is good enough" in case you are a jingoist who doesn't trust the US standard. The potential downside is if they vacillate then they'll delay the vaccine availability despite the fact that the option was available.
I put it to you that this is why the EU gets a lot of hate. People struggle to come up with examples of where it helped things along. There are decent odds here that Trump's policies did more for you on this topic than your own regulators, which I think it not be what you want in an example that you bought up.
> For example because China wants to reduce the influence of other countries? Because it wants to promote their own companies? Because foreign vaccines are too expensive?
You argue a few lines down that the Chinese have a problem with vaccines, so I put it to you that you actually believe the Chinese policy is worse than nothing. These reasons are terrible excuses for not letting a product over a border. Literally sacrificing lives for business interests in defiance of what a free market would do.
>> We're all the same species and have mostly the same problems.
> That sounds silly.
I'm not sure I can argue against this, but I urge you to reconsider what species you are a part of, and what the implications are if the problems are being created by the regulators rather than the underlying reality.