Friends Get More Money, Attention and Handshakes: Chinese Foreign Aid, Xinhua, and Diplomatic Visits

• In Event: Chinese Foreign Policy

Brief Overview

We find that China gives disproportionate aid to recipients it covers in news media directed at foreign audiences and that receive a greater number of diplomatic visits from Beijing.

Authors

• Miles Donovan Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Lucie Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign