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

• In Event: Chinese Foreign Policy in the Global South

Brief Overview

Absent formal avenues of transparency, how do China’s foreign aid and debt allocation relate to public diplomacy and international recognition efforts? We dispel the myths of China as a "rouge donor" and Chinese "debt-trap diplomacy."

Authors

• Lucie Lu, Columbia University

• Miles Donovan Williams, Denison University

• Yujeong Yang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign