@PadraigCarmody, @R_Reboredo1 & I wrote an OA article for @GPEjournal on China's changing role in global development. @ShangweliBeria @LBenabdallah @DrLeeJones @ShaharHameiri @MariaRepnikova @ChinaGSProject @CAAC_Network @MT_Afrika @PW_UniFreiburg bit.ly/3dyP4sH🧵1/5
The article identifies main vectors of China’s engagement in the so-called Global South & examines their adaptive nature with particular reference to the recent "debt backlash" and the increasing soft-powering of development aid. 2/5
The Chinese development policy is currently undergoing a substantial reorganisation towards #softpower initiatives in response to (geo)political backlashes arising from the previous implementation of the #BRI & the risks such loans present to the Chinese economy. 3/5
Neo-Gramscian sensitivity towards the dialectical relationship between materialist & ideational dimensions of global power helps to understand Chinese efforts to bolster its influence in global development, incl. efforts to strengthen China’s #softpower in the Global South. 4/5
The late realisation in the 'West' of the strategic importance of aid to maintain influence in ongoing & upcoming processes of infrastructuring and greening the Global South increases the pressure on Beijing to address governance failures in Global China’s aid regime. 5/5
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