{"id":6501,"date":"2024-03-31T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T11:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2024-03-31T11:27:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T11:27:17","slug":"how-not-to-win-allies-and-influence-geopolitics-chinas-self-defeating-economic-statecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=6501","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Win Allies and Influence Geopolitics: China\u2019s Self-Defeating Economic Statecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author:<\/b> Audrye Wong<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Affiliation:<\/b> Harvard Kennedy School<\/span><\/a> and Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Security Studies Program<\/span><\/p>

Organization \/Publisher:<\/b> Foreign Affairs<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Date\/Place:<\/b> May-June, <\/span>2021\/USA<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/b> Article\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Word Count:<\/b> 4097<\/span><\/p>

Link:<\/b> https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/china\/2021-04-20\/how-not-win-allies-and-influence-geopolitics<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> Geopolitics, Statecraft, China, Allies, Self-defeat<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>

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Author Audrye Wong discusses China\u2019s economic expansion as a counterproductive challenge instead of sustaining its geopolitical position. She argues that the Chinese government\u2019s strategies to weaponize its trade relationships are evident because it is not hesitant about leveraging access to its consumer market to pressure foreign governments and firms to obey its policies. In Australia, Beijing used Chinese businesspeople (later exposed and put in prison) as proxies to make campaign contributions and fund academic institutes to persuade politicians and other voices to support China\u2019s positions on the South China Sea and human rights. In the recent case regarding the origins of COVID-19, when Australia called for an independent inquiry, China imposed tariffs on a range of Australian products. The author criticizes the economic expansion as \u201csubversive carrots\u201d because Chinese companies have bypassed the process of competitive bidding and regulatory approval to secure a contract, often at inflated costs, generating extra profits for both Chinese actors and local elites. The author concludes that China\u2019s rapidly expanding overseas economic presence, particularly when accompanied by subversion and coercion, may exacerbate strategic fears worldwide. Chinese officials may still think that economic development naturally promotes goodwill and gratitude among recipients, but there is good reason to believe that they are wrong. The author believes that China cannot count on automatically converting its growing economic clout into a new geopolitical reality.<\/span><\/p>

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By: Razia Wadood, CIGA Senior Research Associate<\/b><\/p>



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