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Development as a Tool of Economic Statecraft
Eric Robinson
Alexandra T. Evans
Raymond Kuo
Andrew Stravers
Howard J. Shatz
Stephanie Stewart
其他書名
A Net Assessment of U.S. and Chinese Approaches
出版
RAND Corporation
, 2023-10-23
主題
Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development
Business & Economics / Economics / Theory
History / Asia / China
Political Science / International Relations / Diplomacy
Political Science / Human Rights
Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries
ISBN
1977411355
9781977411358
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GHw80AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Over the past decade, China has upended the world of development assistance, rapidly becoming the world's largest bilateral lender by channeling large sums of money into the developing world. As China's economic engagement in the developing world has grown, so too have U.S. and allied concerns that China is leveraging development assistance to assert Chinese influence, weaken the United States' relative position, and achieve Beijing's broader national security interests. In this report, the authors conduct a net assessment of U.S. and Chinese development assistance and cooperation. The authors describe each country's differing approaches to economic engagement with developing countries and conduct a data-driven comparison to identify strategic asymmetries that might present opportunities for the United States to better compete with China for relationships and influence in the developing world. The assessment reveals that Chinese economic engagement in the developing world should not be conceptualized as aid or assistance; this mischaracterization has potentially led to an overreliance on U.S. development tools as a primary response. Moreover, despite evidence of the short-term benefits that China might gain from its development financing, it is not clear whether these benefits are sustainable or effective over the long term when compared with the U.S. approach. Nevertheless, China's efforts--its heavy emphasis on energy and infrastructure projects, its approach to working through elite actors in developing countries, and its willing embrace of greater risk and reduced transparency--create challenges and opportunities for the United States as it looks to compete with China in the developing world.