Below the Belt? Territory and Development in China's International Rise

Mohan, Giles

doi:10.1111/dech.12612

Cited by 23 publications

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“…Because much ISM theory is predicated broadly on “North–South” framings, it is difficult to employ existing frameworks to understand China's place within the global higher education field. As Mohan (2020) rightly points out, the presence of China “complicates … the accepted binaries and power relations of knowledge production where the critique has focused on the colonizer as Western imperialist” (pp. 4–5).…”

Section: Literature Review and Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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“Decentring” international student mobility: The case of African student migrants in China

Mulvey

2020

Population Space and Place

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Despite the growth in numbers and geopolitical relevance of African students in China, research focusing on this body of student migrants remains scarce. This article presents an empirical investigation and postcolonial theorisation of student migration between Africa and China. Drawing on data from semi‐structured interviews with 40 African students, I provide an account of the decision‐making processes that lead African student migrants to study in Chinese universities. The article explores how this process is mediated by global power asymmetries, specifically China's position within the (post)colonial world system relative to African nations. Four examples are given of student decision‐making processes which are shaped by structural inequalities, and challenge existing understandings of who moves overseas to study for a degree and to what ends. These are as follows: underprivileged students benefiting from China's political manoeuvring, students who are coerced into moving overseas, students who are middle class but not affluent by global standards, and elites who take advantage of social networks to secure diplomatic scholarships.

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Section: Literature Review and Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Decentring” international student mobility: The case of African student migrants in China

Mulvey

2020

Population Space and Place

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“…Internally, digital technology help firms to develop internationalization, realizing more efficient overall management, resource integration, collaborative innovation, process reengineering and value increment. Therefore, digital ability is becoming the core competitive advantage of firms [7].…”

Section: Digital Economymentioning

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Literature Review and Current Analysis on Effects of Geopolitics on Firms’ Internationalization—Based on Ukraine War

2023

JSSH

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Globalization has been advanced gradually in recent days, encouraging firms to develop internationalization. However, the firms' internationalization will be significantly influenced by geopolitical events in internal and external aspects. The process of the influence is related to many factors, which can be regarded as the boundary conditions, leading to different impacts. In this article, asset types, business model, digital economy and political conflicts are involved as outstanding moderators. On February 24th, 2022, Ukraine war begun. It has changed existing geopolitical situation, and has been seen as one of the motivators of firms' withdrawal from theRussian market. In this event, political conflicts and digital economy are the most typical and significant boundary conditions to moderate the impact process and final results.

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“…In essence, China is seeking to reinvent itself as a partner for developing countries, for instance via the emphasis on the issue of trade imbalances and the subsequent opening of certain domestic markets (Wigmore and Ryder, 2022). We characterise this as an attempt at 'normalisation' of China as a 'donor', suggesting both changing domestic dynamics and the power of global public opinion, despite the multi or 'omni-channel politics' (Nederven Pieterse, 2018 cited in Mohan, 2021) and other power resources the country can bring to bear.…”

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From ‘debt diplomacy’ to donorship? China’s changing role in global development

Carmody

Zajontz

Reboredo

2022

Global Political Economy

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Since the mid-1990s the Chinese state and the country’s businesses have significantly increased their activity throughout the Global South. In International Development, China’s impacts on this varied meta-region have generated substantial interest in recent years due to their scale, scope and distinctive nature. Understandably, given the complexity of the subject, most analyses have focused on discrete aspects of Chinese engagement rather than attempting to undertake more comprehensive assessments around its nature and evolution. This article engages this lacuna by identifying the main vectors of China’s engagement in the Global South, and examining their adaptive nature. In particular it identifies the main channels of impact and intersection before focusing on China’s signature foreign economic policy, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), to ground the analysis. The article then examines the ways in which China is reconfiguring its foreign economic diplomacy in response to the issue of infrastructure-linked debt – perhaps the most controversial aspect of China’s growing global presence. We demonstrate that the Chinese ‘development’ policy is currently undergoing a substantial reorganisation towards soft power initiatives in response to (geo)political backlashes arising from the previous implementation of the BRI and the risks such loans present to the Chinese economy. We characterise this as an attempt at ‘normalisation’ of China as a ‘donor’, suggesting the power of global public opinion despite the ‘omni-channel politics’ and other power resources the country can bring to bear.

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Below the Belt? Territory and Development in China's International Rise

Cited by 23 publications

References 74 publications

“Decentring” international student mobility: The case of African student migrants in China

“Decentring” international student mobility: The case of African student migrants in China

Literature Review and Current Analysis on Effects of Geopolitics on Firms’ Internationalization—Based on Ukraine War

From ‘debt diplomacy’ to donorship? China’s changing role in global development

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