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INTERNATIONAL EDITION | SATURDAY-SUNDAY, AUGUST 21-22, 2021 Dear adults, Doubts you’re failing spread on us on climate Chinese

Greta Thunberg vaccines Adriana Calderón Farzana Faruk Jhumu SINGAPORE Eric Njuguna Asian countries received OPINION big supplies, but now Last week, some of the world’s leading they’re turning elsewhere climate change scientists confirmed that humans are making irreversible BY SUI-LEE WEE changes to our planet and extreme AND STEVEN LEE MYERS weather will only become more severe. This news is a “code red for humanity,” The arrival of the Chinese vaccines was said the United Nations secretary supposed to help stop the spread of the general. coronavirus in Southeast Asia. It is — but young people like us have Instead, countries across the region been sounding this alarm for years. are quickly turning elsewhere to look for You just haven’t listened. shots. On Aug. 20, 2018, one child staged a Residents in Thailand vaccinated lone protest outside the Swedish Par- with one dose of Sinovac, the Chinese liament, expecting to stay for three vaccine, are now given the AstraZeneca weeks. Friday shot three to four weeks later. In Indone- “We will marked three years sia, officials are administering the Mod- not allow since Greta Thun- erna vaccine as a booster to health care berg’s strike. Even workers who received two doses of Sino- the world to earlier, brave young vac. look away.” people from around Malaysia’s health minister said the the world spoke out country would stop using Sinovac, once about the climate its supply ran out. Even Cambodia, one crisis in their communities. And today, of China’s strongest allies, has started millions of children and young people using AstraZeneca as a booster for its have united in a movement with one frontline workers who have taken the voice, demanding that decision makers EMRAH GUREL/ASSOCIATED PRESS Chinese vaccines. do the work necessary to save our Men who fled the Afghan military on foot in Turkey. Thousands of security force members have left Afghanistan, but many more who fought to the end have been left behind. Few places benefited from China’s planet from the unprecedented heat vaccine diplomacy as much as South- waves, massive floods and vast wild- east Asia, a region of more than 650 mil- fires we are increasingly witnessing. lion people that has struggled to secure Our protest will not end until the inac- doses from Western drugmakers. Sev- tion does. eral of these countries have recorded For children and young people, some of the fastest-growing numbers of climate change is the single greatest Hunted by the Taliban cases in the world, underscoring the threat to our futures. We are the ones desperate need for inoculations. who will have to clean up the mess you In the Panjshir Afghan commando, in a text message to China, eager to build good will, adults have made, and we are the ones Afghan security forces Valley of Afghani- an American soldier who had fought stepped in, promising to provide more who are more likely to suffer now. stan, a handful of with him. Farid, who agreed to be identi- than 255 million doses, according to Children are more vulnerable than are on the run and Afghan leaders are fied by his first name only, said he was Bridge Consulting, a Beijing-based re- adults to the dangerous weather ‘praying to be saved’ trying to organize hiding in the mountains of eastern Af- search company. events, diseases and other harms a force to resist the ghanistan, trapped after the regular Half a year in, however, that cam- caused by climate change, which is BY MATTHEW ROSENBERG Taliban. They are army units surrendered around him. “I paign has lost some of its luster. Officials why an analysis released on Friday by said to have 2,000 am praying to be saved.” in several countries have raised doubts UNICEF is so important. Columns of Afghan soldiers in armored to 2,500 men. Accounts that the Taliban were about the efficacy of Chinese vaccines, The Children’s Climate Risk Index vehicles and pickup trucks sped through searching for people they believe especially against the more transmissi- provides the first comprehensive view the desert to reach Iran. Military pilots worked with and fought alongside U.S. ble Delta variant. Indonesia, which was of where and how this crisis affects flew low and fast to the safety of Uzbeki- and NATO forces are beginning to early to accept Chinese shots, was re- children. It ranks countries based on stan’s mountains. trickle out, offering a bloody counter- cently the epicenter of the virus. Other children’s exposure to climate and Thousands of Afghan security force point to the kinder and gentler face that countries have complained about the environmental shocks, as well as their members managed to make it to other the militants have been trying to conditions that accompanied Chinese underlying vulnerability to those countries over the past few weeks as the present to the world. donations or sales. shocks. Taliban rapidly seized the country. Oth- AHMAD SAHEL ARMAN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES The militants are threatening to ar- The setback to China’s vaccine cam- It finds that virtually every child on ers managed to negotiate surrenders rest or punish family members if they paign has created a diplomatic opening THUNBERG, PAGE 11 and returned to their homes — and spent tens of billions of dollars to arm, fought to the end, despite the talk in AFGHANISTAN, PAGE 5 for the United States when relations be- some kept their weapons and joined the train and stand against the Taliban, a Washington that the Afghan forces had tween the two countries are increas- The New York Times publishes opinion winning side. two-decade effort at institution-building simply given up, have been left behind. RUSSIA TAKES CHARGE IN CENTRAL ASIA ingly fraught, in part because of the co- from a wide range of perspectives in They were all part of the sudden at- that was dismantled in just a few days. They are now on the run, hiding and Moscow has gained broad influence in ronavirus. China has criticized the hopes of promoting constructive debate omization of the national security forces But tens of thousands of other Afghan hunted by the Taliban. security matters at the expense of the American handling of the crisis at home about consequential questions. that the United States and its allies had grunts, commandos and spies who “There’s no way out,” said Farid, an United States. PAGE 4 VACCINES, PAGE 8

Giving Hollywood another try

RAMBROUCH, LUXEMBOURG said recently, sitting in the backyard of her family’s 200-year-old home in west- ern Luxembourg. The experience of be- Understand today. ing in the public eye, she said, “was al- Together. ‘Phantom Thread’ star most traumatizing.” This summer, however, Krieps, 37, is Getthe story, firsthand. Hear vital voices, returns to the spotlight back in the spotlight, with lead roles in after a stressful initiation two movies at this year’s Cannes Film in their own words. Connect with your Festival (Mia Hansen-Love’s “Bergman world and the people shaping it. BY THOMAS ROGERS Island” and Mathieu Amalric’s “Hold Me Tight”). And in a move that signals Explore the full schedule. Four years ago, Vicky Krieps seemed an end to her self-imposed Hollywood timesevents.nytimes.com destined for Hollywood stardom. The exile, she is also starring in M. Night Luxembourgian actress had emerged Shyamalan’s horror fable “Old,” which from near obscurity to star in Paul arrived in U.S. movie houses on July 23. Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” Krieps, who is self-deprecating and in which she portrayed the tormented warm in person but prone to earnest muse of a domineering fashion designer tangents about art and nature, said that played by Daniel Day-Lewis. Her per- the notion that “Old” was being shown in formance — vulnerable, prickly, an- so many theaters was stressing her out. guished — gained critical raves and sug- “I carry this huge paradox: I’ve be- gested the arrival of a major new talent. come an actor, but I don’t want to be Then Krieps seemed to vanish, turn- seen — it doesn’t make any sense,” she ing down a host of Hollywood offers, in- said. “I’m really scared that people cluding a big-budget action movie, and might recognize me.” JULIEN MIGNOT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES instead taking smaller roles, mostly in In the film directed by Shyamalan she Vicky Krieps in Luxembourg. She stars in M. Night Shyamalan’s horror fable “Old.” She European art-house films and German plays a mother of two who, while on a said, “I carry this huge paradox: I’ve become an actor, but I don’t want to be seen.” television. “I needed two years,” she KRIEPS, PAGE 2

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