Domestic actors and agendas in Chinese aid policy

Varrall, Merriden

doi:10.1080/09512748.2015.1066414

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“…Articles included in this special edition focus on the domestic politics of aid within a specific country setting: Varrall (2015) examines China, Kim (2015) South Korea, Tubilewicz (2015) Taiwan, Jain (2015) Japan and Rosser (2015) Australia. Four key general findings emerge from these papers.…”

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Emerging donors and new contests over aid policy in Pacific Asia

Rosser

Tubilewicz

2015

The Pacific Review

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The rise of emerging donors has unleashed new political contests over aid policy, some of which have occurred at the domestic level. This article locates the special edition's analysis of these contests within the existing literature on emerging donors, draws out the key findings of included papers, and considers their implications for policy. It argues that domestic contests have had significant influence over aid policy in both emerging and established donors, the agendas at work have varied from case to case reflecting countries' different political economies, and aid policies represent a 'work-in-progress' rather than an expression of immutable models.

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Emerging donors and new contests over aid policy in Pacific Asia

Rosser

Tubilewicz

2015

The Pacific Review

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“…This is reiterated by the domestic context in which China's foreign aid policy is shaped. Due to the lack of an independent foreign aid agency, line ministries, such as the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), are the primary government actors that determine the allocation of ODA flows (Dornan and Brant 2014;Varrall 2016;Zhang and Smith 2017). Although economic interests are thus prominent in the decision-making process of aid allocation, China's distribution of development assistance ultimately must adhere to its foreign policy goals as the 'MFA has "veto power" over whether aid serves China's foreign policy interests' Smith 2017, 2335).…”

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Debunking Myths about China: The Determinants of China’s Official Financing to the Pacific

Grieken

Kantorowicz

2019

Geopolitics

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With China rapidly expanding its aid programme in the Pacific Islands region, there is a growing concern among established powers about China's sway over the aid-dependent Pacific Island states. Systematic studies of China's development finance to the small island countries are, however, rare and generally limited to mapping Chinese finance flows in the Pacific. This study seeks to contribute to the literature on China's development efforts in the Pacific Islands region. Drawing on project-level data from AidData for the period 2000-2014, this paper disaggregates China's official financing into its constituent parts and systematically explores the determinants of China's Official Development Assistance (ODA) and its commercially-oriented finance flows to the Pacific. The panel data analysis finds that, contrary to popular belief, China does not reward voting compliance in the United Nations nor is its allocation of financing to the Pacific influenced by the countries' level of indebtedness.

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“…MOFCOM, however, is ostensibly primarily responsible for China's international economic relations, and typically uses IDF to support Chinese commercial endeavours. 42 Most research suggests MOFCOM is dominant, disregarding the MFA except when it needs a 'diplomatic problem-solver' when things go wrong. 43 Many other national-level agencies are also involved.…”

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“…However, it is unclear whether IDF falls within the remit of the foreign affairs LSG, the finance and economy LSG, the BRI LSG or-as seems likely, given the usual tussles-all of them. 55 The potential overlap is characteristic of the partystate's fragmentation: Lampton remarks that '[LSGs] too need coordination'. 56 In the State Council, MOFCOM, MFA and MOF established a liaison mechanism in 2008 which in 2011 was formalized as the Inter-Agency Foreign Aid Coordination Mechanism.…”

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China challenges global governance? Chinese international development finance and the AIIB

Hameiri¹,

Jones²

2018

International Affairs

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China challenges global governance? Chinese international development finance and the AIIB SHAHAR HAMEIRI AND LEE JONES * Scholars and policy-makers have been increasingly debating the potential impact of rising powers on the architecture and outputs of global governance, with particular reference to China-the most important emerging power. 1 This discussion overlaps with a broader debate over whether China is a 'status quo' power that will maintain the post-Second World War 'international liberal order', or a 'revisionist' state seeking to overturn this order. 2 Much of this debate has focused on existing multilateral institutions, where 'gridlock' is frequently blamed on rising powers' obsession with state sovereignty and/or demands for greater status and respect for their interests and agendas. 3 Many perceive a growing challenge to US domination of these institutions, and a tendency to establish new ones that 'perform a similar function' but are more responsive to emerging powers' demands. 4 This is taken by some to denote a growing challenge to the international liberal order, particularly from China. 5 * We would like to thank Jeffrey Wilson and the editors and reviewers of International Affairs for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article. We would also like to thank Zhang Tong for his research assistance and Ryan Smith for assisting with copyediting. Responsibility for the final version is of course solely ours. We gratefully acknowledge generous funding for this project provided through Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant DP170102647 'Rising Powers and State Transformation'. 1 See e.g. Miles Kahler, 'Rising powers and global governance: negotiating change in a resilient status quo',

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Domestic actors and agendas in Chinese aid policy

Cited by 24 publications

References 16 publications

Emerging donors and new contests over aid policy in Pacific Asia

Emerging donors and new contests over aid policy in Pacific Asia

Debunking Myths about China: The Determinants of China’s Official Financing to the Pacific

China challenges global governance? Chinese international development finance and the AIIB

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