China’s Sovereign Wealth Funds: Problem or Panacea?

Grading greatness: evaluating the status performance of the BRICS

“…49 Especially through the fostering of various regional initiatives, this seems to have defused at least some of the tension associated with power-transitions involving a state with China's potential. Further, China's export led growth strategy has surely helped: its Balance of Payment-surplus, trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund, 50 and vast global FDI portfolio, 51 has arguably made China too economically important to let misgivings about their political system affect the willingness of states to recognize China. Indeed, this would be consistent with Neumayer, who 12 suggest that above a certain power threshold, ideological affinity ceases to influence patterns of status recognition.…”

Untapped Instrument. Sovereign Wealth Funds and Chinese policy toward the Central and Eastern European countries

“…Through SWFs, China invests in projects related to its political goals (Norris 2016;Cieślik 2014). Therefore, they are widely viewed as highly politicized and run in an obscure fashion, which has triggered a debate in Western countries as to whether the SWFs might serve as a source of market stability or as a potential threat to Europe (Bu 2010).…”