Using a multivariate framework and the most recently available data that include numerous African countries, this investigation has produced the first extensive statistical evaluation of China’s image in Africa based on China’s various economic relations with Africa, including aid, trade, FDI and contracts. We find that China’s economic development assistance, contracts, and to some degree, trade with African countries contribute to a positive image of China in Africa. In addition, we find that people in African countries of a smaller population, poorer livelihood, less open economy, and better governance tend to have positive views of China’s political and economic influence. With the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese economic activities in recipient countries have been increasing. The implications of this research shed light on how BRI may be received in the host countries and the likelihood of its success or failure.
正Ambitious free trade proposals may dramatically shape the future of economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific By An GangWhen Singapore,New Zealand and Chile announced the official launch of the Pacific Three Closer Economic 相似文献
Abstract Participating in EU crisis management operations has affected institutional actors on various levels. As the main deliverers of civilian and military resources to EU operations, national ministries and agencies have been particularly confronted with the need for administrative adaptation. A big member state like Germany is expected to make substantial contributions, but it also faces a rigid administration. This article uses a combined hypothesis of historical institutionalism and organisational learning to explain administrative Europeanisation in German government institutions involved in civilian and military crisis management deployments. The empirical data on the German administrative trajectories under Schröder and Merkel show an explanatory link between political learning and overcoming institutional path dependency. 相似文献
The United States should broaden its approach to the Diaoyu Islands dispute Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to kick off his first visit to the United States in mid-February since regaining the position.The world will undoubtedly keep a close eye on his visit with a focus on the dispute over 相似文献
China prepares to fulfill its leadership transition and pursue its most crucial national goals The upcoming First Plenary Session of the 12th National People’s Congress,China’s top legislature, and the First Session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference,the country’s top advisory body,will finally complete the country’s leadership transition. The job performance of the new leadership of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC),headed by Xi Jinping as general secretary 相似文献
Paraguay is often described as a territory of drug trafficking, smuggling and commercial piracy. However, the country remains understudied by academics researching criminality and illegal markets. Pedro Juan Caballero, a city located on the northern border with Brazil, is an interesting case study to illustrate how legality and illegality merge in Paraguay to create hybrid social orders. The daily life in the city, one of the best places in the world for cultivating marijuana, unfolds between the higher homicides rates and some of the lowest levels of common criminality in Paraguay. Far from being a matter of state weakness, the expansion and tolerance of illegal activities is framed within a cluster of order that combines both rational legal practices and neo-patrimonial norms. The presence and roles of state institutions are re-signified, generating alternative hierarchies, practices and values to supply social, political and economic outcomes. Through in-depth interviews with key informants, ethnography visits and analyses of aggregated data, this paper describes the hybrid order of Pedro Juan Caballero by tallying the incentives that encourage social and institutional tolerance of illegality and describes how illegal practices create access to goods, services, protection and expectations not provided by the legal framework. 相似文献