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Vo1. 38, No. 3, May/June 2020
[Keywords] competition era, Multi-Domain Defense, cross-domain operation, US-
Japan alliance
[Author] MENG Xiaoxu, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Japanese Studies,
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, 100007).

76 The Health Security Strategy of America and Its Challenges to
Global Health Security System
JIN Jiyong
[Abstract] The 21st century has witnessed an array of serious threats to global
health security posed by such emerging and reemerging infectious diseases as
COVID-19, Ebola, SARS and H1N1, which makes it an urgent task for the
international community to improve global health governance. The Trump
administration failed to formulate a specific global health security policy in its early
days, although the United States has played an important role in global health
security governance. Global Health Security Strategy, first released by the Trump
administration in May 2019, was the formal announcement of its global health
security policy. Focusing on addressing infectious disease threats, the Strategy
adopts a national security-oriented and whole-of-government approach and fully
reflects the core tenets of President Trump’s foreign policy doctrine:
“burden-sharing”, “America First” and anti-multilateralism. Due to shared
vulnerabilities in global health security, all countries have been tied together.
Effective global health security governance calls for global multilateralism.
Therefore, the national security-oriented Global Health Security Strategy
characterized by “America First” policy is not compatible with the realization of
global health security. The aforementioned mindset of the Trump administration not
only undermines the foundation of international political cooperation necessary for
building an effective global health security system, but also exacerbates the
financing system of global health security, thus inevitably posing a challenge to the
global health security system.
[Keywords] Trump administration, Global Health Security Strategy, infectious
diseases, America First, COVID-19
[Author] JIN Jiyong, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor and Deputy Dean,
School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai International Studies
University (Shanghai, 200083).

96 US Biodefense Policy and National Security
LIU Changmin and SONG Mingjing
[Abstract] The US biodefense policy is the government’s platform for action
aimed at countering biological threats, mitigating biological risks, and preparing in
advance for, responding to, and recovering from biological incidents. Since the
beginning of the 21st century, successive presidents have paid particular attention to
the formulation and improvement of the US biodefense policies. From President
George W. Bush to President Donald Trump, six relevant bills, seven national
strategy reports and five executive orders have been issued. The US government
seeks to elevate biodefense and biosecurity as a critical imperative in its national
security strategy by building a bidirectional, solid, and systematic “biosecurity
shield” framework via substantial funds, specialized agencies, integrated resources
management and enhanced international cooperation. All these moves aim to

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