Six Crises: Susan Rice on How China Helped Battle Ebola (2014)

Susan Rice was national security advisor to President Obama when an outbreak of deadly Ebola cropped up in West Africa—a disease so deadly that it has had a human death rate as high as 90 percent in some past outbreaks. With Rice as the administration’s point-person, the United States and China agreed to complementary steps aimed not just at forestalling contagion from West Africa, but also at working together in the so-called “hot zone,” with team members from both countries working alongside each other at a Chinese laboratory established in Sierra Leone. She draws lessons learned from that experience for prospective U.S.-China coordination during the current coronavirus pandemic.