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Line chart titled "China's Health Aid, 2000–23" showing inflation-adjusted Chinese health commitments to low- and middle-income countries in 2023 U.S. dollars. Aid remained mostly below $400 million from 2000 to 2004, then spiked to approximately $1.3 billion in 2005 following a large loan for Cuban hospitals, before falling back to under $400 million through 2014. After China introduced the Health Silk Road in 2015, aid rose to roughly $700 million in 2016, then fluctuated between $400–500 million through 2020. Aid surged dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, peaking near $2.4 billion around 2021–2022, then dropped sharply to near zero in 2023. Source: AidData

China's Health Silk Road and Soft Power

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Understanding China's previous engagement on health development can inform its future strategy as the United States pulls back

Members of the Red Crescent talk to each other as smoke rises into the air after a reported strike on Shahran fuel tanks, in Tehran, Iran, on March 8, 2026.

A Humanitarian Off-Ramp for the Iran War

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Health diplomacy has long served as means for adversaries to work together when politics make broader engagement impossible

Health and Science Diplomacy Protects Everyone

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A former State Department employee outlines the value of international collaboration on health and science

Health and Science Diplomacy Protects Everyone

The WHO's Funding Gap: Filling the Medical Diplomacy Void

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Medical accrediting organizations can fill the vacuum created by the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization

The WHO's Funding Gap: Filling the Medical Diplomacy Void

Making City Diplomacy Work for Global Health

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Collaborative governance among cities is expanding and should be central to global health diplomacy

Making City Diplomacy Work for Global Health

Infrastructure, Cities, and Global Health Diplomacy

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The interconnections of societies on an urbanizing planet require cities to network and engage more in health diplomacy

Infrastructure, Cities, and Global Health Diplomacy

Russia's Strategic Approach to Climate Change

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Moscow accepts that climate change is real but uses climate diplomacy to advance national security and geopolitical ends

Russia's Strategic Approach to Climate Change

China's Foreign Policy and Global Health Leadership

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Chinese health diplomacy has made progress, but challenges to China's aspirations to be a leader in global health remain

China's Foreign Policy and Global Health Leadership

The United States Targets Cervical Cancer and Lead Exposure

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The Biden administration launched efforts to reduce cervical cancer and lead exposure that could have brief policy lives

The United States Targets Cervical Cancer and Lead Exposure

Global Health Politics: Multipolarity Is the New Reality

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Long dominated by the West, global health is changing because of discontent with the past and the return of geopolitics

Global Health Politics: Multipolarity Is the New Reality

A New Era for Russian Foreign Policy on Global Health

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Russia has altered its approach to global health amid the war in Ukraine and geopolitical rivalry with the West

A New Era for Russian Foreign Policy on Global Health

Global Health Security and Diplomacy in 2024: Lead, Leverage, and Elevate

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Discussions will intensify in 2024 to strengthen the global health security architecture

Global Health Security and Diplomacy in 2024: Lead, Leverage, and Elevate