What Friends are Made of: Bilateral Linkages and Domestic Drivers of Foreign Policy Alignment with China

Strüver, Georg

doi:10.1111/fpa.12050

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“…It may therefore not come as a surprise that the quantitative literature on China's development finance to developing countries is sparse (Bader, 2015;Strüver, 2016). This study is among the first to shed light on China's development finance activities in Africa using quantitative estimation techniques.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…China increasingly garners support for its commitment to its foreign policy principle of non-aggression and non-interference in domestic political affairs. Empirical findings by Strüver (2016) suggest that governments receiving foreign aid from China are more likely to demonstrate high levels of voting alignment with China.…”

Section: Possible Determinants Of China's Development Financementioning

confidence: 99%

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Do authoritarian regimes receive more Chinese development finance than democratic ones? Empirical evidence for Africa

Broich

2017

China Economic Review

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This study is part of an emerging literature that aims to shed light on China's development finance activities in Africa using quantitative estimation techniques. This paper empirically investigates whether African authoritarian regimes receive more Chinese development assistance than democratic ones, both in absolute and relative terms. I use three different measures of democracy/autocracy which allows me to check whether my results depend on the specific indicator chosen. The OLS results suggest that Chinese development finance does not systematically flow to more authoritarian countries, controlling for strategic, economic, political, institutional and geographic confounding factors. The results are not driven by the specific democracy indicator used in the analysis. The findings remain virtually unchanged if I reduce the sample to Sub-Saharan Africa only. Furthermore, the results stand up to several robustness checks, including FE, RE and instrumental variable estimation.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Possible Determinants Of China's Development Financementioning

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Do authoritarian regimes receive more Chinese development finance than democratic ones? Empirical evidence for Africa

Broich

2017

China Economic Review

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“…The idea of creating political solidarity among the developing countries at international institutions has been an important part of China's selective engagement strategy (Matsuda, 2014). Especially with regard to the China's diplomatic influence in the UN platform, the political support from the developing countries has been increased over time (Struver, 2014). This diplomatic success of China combined with the increasing tendency of other emerging countries for collaboration outside of the existing financial institutions has been a sign of their existent autonomy and intent to set up their role (Huotari and Hanemann, 2014).…”

Section: China's Expectation Of Success For the Aiib's Developmentmentioning

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Çin’in Kurumsal Reforma Yönelik Stratejileri: AAYB’nin Kuruluşu ve Gelişimindeki Başarı

Tüter

2019

Ekonomi, Politika &Amp; Finans Araştırmaları Dergisi

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While existing studies largely focus on the implications of China-led new multilateral institutions to international order, the question of underlying reasons for the establishment of those institutions and their future development success have received less attention. China's strategies towards institutional reform are mainly based on its dissatiffaction with asymmetrical distributional gains within existing multilateral institutions such as World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). By using bargaining theory in international relations, this article contributes to explain the main conditions and mechanisms of the creation of Asian Infrasturucture Investment Bank (AIIB). In creating AIIB, China aims to increase its bargaining leverage which provides itself direct and indirect benefits visa -vis the costs emanating from intensified strategic competition with the US. Thus, it is argued that China's expectation of success reinforced by direct and indirect benefits for the development of AIIB reflects both the significant motivations underpinning its creation and also the possibility of extended institutional reform into other multilateral regimes. Within the context of power transition, the political bargaining process in reforming existing multilateral regimes is likely to be shaped by the tension between minilateralist strategies of rising powers and truly multilateral operations within newly emerging financial regime.

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“…This effect of enhanced political closeness between China and its economic partners generates foreign policy consequences, especially for the US which may see China emerge to counterbalance its influence. Beijing's official interests in Latin America hardly remain restricted to the economic realm, but instead follow the rationale of a 'comprehensive cooperation' that also encompasses political aspects [48]. 6 Argentina underwent three foreign policy stages.…”

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Don't Cry for Me 'Argenchina': Unraveling Political Views of China Through Legislative Debates in Argentina

2016

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This study seeks to explain the profound discord currently observable in elite political discourse on Chinese investments in many host countries. Using Argentina as a case study, a combination of quantitative content analysis and qualitative discourse analysis was employed to analyze parliamentary speeches on a controversial spacemonitoring station built there by China in 2015. The study finds that the competing discourses about China in Argentinean politics draw primarily on locally embedded contexts and the region's particular historical experiences and geopolitical position. These local narratives are used in different ways by both sides of the debate to support contradicting positions on relevant issues. Questions of regional hegemony, centerperiphery relations, national autonomy as well as Peronist and anti-Peronist ideologies are being drawn on by elite politicians in an attempt to cope with the deep uncertainty about what China's increased engagement means for the country and to compensate for the lack of predictability about China's behavior in its future role as a major global power. Ultimately, however, Argentina's elite politicians end up in a dilemma in which these narratives and historical memories can be spun in both ways to either support or reject a controversial investment project to go ahead on domestic soil that is, at the same time, a symbolic test for the potential depth of the future relationship with China.

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What Friends are Made of: Bilateral Linkages and Domestic Drivers of Foreign Policy Alignment with China

Cited by 36 publications

References 54 publications

Do authoritarian regimes receive more Chinese development finance than democratic ones? Empirical evidence for Africa

Do authoritarian regimes receive more Chinese development finance than democratic ones? Empirical evidence for Africa

Çin’in Kurumsal Reforma Yönelik Stratejileri: AAYB’nin Kuruluşu ve Gelişimindeki Başarı

Don't Cry for Me 'Argenchina': Unraveling Political Views of China Through Legislative Debates in Argentina

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