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China's health diplomacy during Covid-19: the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in action
Chinas Gesundheitsdiplomatie in Zeiten von Corona: die Seidenstraßeninitiative (BRI) in Aktion
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
Abstract International cooperation in the health sector has been a firm component of Chin's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for over five years. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chinese leadership has been promoting this aspect of the initiative ("health silk road") as essential to building a ... mehr
International cooperation in the health sector has been a firm component of Chin's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for over five years. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chinese leadership has been promoting this aspect of the initiative ("health silk road") as essential to building a "global community of common destiny". The pandemic has revealed the strengths of the BRI and the way it functions. China’s health diplomacy is farsighted and strategic. Beijing has been linking measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic in aid recipient countries with the prospect of post-pandemic cooperation within the BRI framework. Above all, Beijing wants to be perceived internationally as a "responsible great power". The West’s often narrow focus on the qualitative defects of Chinese aid fails to recognise that, in the absence of traditional aid donors, Beijing has supported many third countries effectively and extensively. To counter China's increasing influence in regions that are strategically important for Germany and Europe, greater sensitivity is needed to the geopolitical implications of the pandemic, as well as specific European proposals for third countries for the post-pandemic period. In parallel with more commitment at the multilateral level (for instance within the World Health Organisation, WHO), other options include strengthening bilateral initiatives (e.g. via regional EU+x formats) and coordination with the new US government under Joe Biden. (author's abstract)... weniger
Klassifikation
Gesundheitspolitik
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
Volksrepublik China; Gesundheitspolitik; Internationale Zusammenarbeit im Gesundheitswesen; Belt and Road Initiative (PR China); Global Health Governance; Internationales Krisenmanagement; Internationaler Wettbewerb; Medizinische Versorgung; Epidemie/Pandemie; Viruskrankheit; COVID-19; Gesundheitswirtschaft; Impfung; World Health Organization; ASEAN-Länder; League of Arab States; Afrika
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Seitenangabe
8 S.
Schriftenreihe
SWP Comment, 9/2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18449/2021C09
ISSN
1861-1761
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung