1. China's health silk road construction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Zeng, Weiwei, Ding, Mengli, and Liu, Hongsong
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INTERNATIONAL relations ,PRACTICAL politics ,WORLD health ,MEDICAL care ,ORGANIZATIONAL change ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,COVID-19 pandemic ,HEALTH promotion - Abstract
China has been contributing to new approaches to global governance. The Health Silk Road (HSR), a significant component of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), was proposed by China in 2016. This paper claims that HSR is a new institution introduced alongside the existing WHO-led multilateral health system, and its relationship with the existing system can be described as layering. Having explored the new development of HSR during COVID-19, this paper further argues that while HSR has its unique strength in making contributions to global health governance and economic recovery, it faces a prominent issue of securitisation in the context of China-U.S. strategic competition, suspicion of the quality of medical products and sectoral fragmentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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