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China Engages Global Health Governance is the first book to systematically examine China’s participation in the global health domain. It examines how and why China changed its stance on its HIV/AIDS epidemic and investigates China’s emerging role in Africa’s AIDS crisis and the controversial issue of access to anti-retroviral drugs for the continent’s impoverished people. In scrutinizing China’s evolving global role and its intentions for global governance and global health governance, this book argues that China is neither a system-defender nor a system-transformer of the liberal international order. While acting in concert with other major powers, China strives to defend itself from the encroachment of liberal democratic values on the world stage. In order to carve out some international space for itself and to fend off attacks by the liberal normative structure, China calls for multilateral cooperation in a “harmonious world.” With the suggestion that there is no universally applicable blueprint for development, Beijing tries to shore up the principle of national sovereignty and non-intervention and strengthen ties with developing countries to consolidate a normative and politic

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Author

Lai-Ha Chan (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282993785

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Political Science, Medical