AT the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the US military launched a secret campaign to discredit China's Sinovac inoculation and to counter what it perceived as China's growing influence in the Philippines, according to a new Reuters investigation.

THE clandestine operation hit the Philippines, which had been hit particularly hard by the virus. I should know. I was in Metro Manila at the time.

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