1. John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2001), 402.
2. David Shambaugh, “China Engages Asia: Reshaping the Regional Order,” International Security 29, no. 3 (Winter 2004/05): 65.
3. This section draws and elaborates on Lai-Ha Chan, Pak K. Lee, and Gerald Chan, “China Engages Global Health Governance: Processes and Dilemmas,” Global Public Health 4, no. 1 (January 2009): 1–30.
4. Lincoln C. Chen, Tim G. Evans, and Richard A. Cash, “Health as a Global Public Good,” in Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century, ed. Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grumberg, and Marc A. Stern (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 285.
5. Quoted in Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994), xi-xii.