China’s Response to the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID10476255
AuthorsIan Taylor (0000-0002-8721-3759, University of St Andrews, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume104
Issue1
Pages41-54
Publication date2015-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Round Table (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0035-8533 • E-ISSN: 1465-4008
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00358533.2015.1005362
OpenAlexW2043441734
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This article examines the Chinese response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, first surveying Chinese interests in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Many Chinese workers have been evacuated and projects postponed. For the first time, China has extended humanitarian aid to countries facing a public health emergency. China is under pressure to 'do something' but faces its own developmental challenges as well as problems of logistics. Chinese knowledge of Africa is still relatively weak and uninformed. Although China's assistance dwarves that from the other BRICS, the Ebola crisis has revealed problems in Sino-African relations, not least the gap between rhetoric and reality

China · Development economics · Ebola virus · Economic growth · Humanitarian crisis · Outbreak · Political science · Rhetoric · Sierra leone · Global Security and Public Health · International Development and Aid · Law · Medicine · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Virology

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