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Michael Wenderoth offers insights into what seemed at first like an impossibility: a private, foreign-invested western hospital in China. Fei-Ling Wang zooms out to 30,000 feet with a piece that argues the rise of China offers a double-barreled challenge of a shift of power in the international system and re-ordering of how nations align within the system. And John Garver reviews Parama Sinha Palit\u2019s book, <em>Analyzing China\u2019s Soft Power Strategy and Comparative Indian Initiatives<\/em>, which he terms \u201can interesting and solid study of an important but under-researched aspect of China\u2019s rise in Asia.\u201d We invite you to linger and learn with each of these essays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This edition of China Currents covers an exceptionally broad swath of terrain, a reflection of the expansive changes taking place in China and their effects on the world. 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