China's deepening health crisis reveals the fragility of the party-state and undercuts China's ability to project influence internationally.

Yanzhong Huang is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a professor at Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations, where he developed the first academic concentration among US schools of international affairs to explicitly address the security and foreign policy aspects of global health issues. His writing has appeared in outlets including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune.

Part I: 1. Health effects of environmental degradation; 2. Economic, sociopolitical and foreign policy impacts; Part II: 3. Evolving environmental health policy; 4. Implementing environmental health policy; 5. An assessment of policy effectiveness; Notes; Index.