China's renewed prominence is the most important development in international relations in the 21st century. Despite longstanding rhetoric of its own “peaceful rise”, China is increasingly viewed as a long-term strategic competitor, especially in the United States. Foreign aid is one arena...

The emergence of China as a major development partner requires a reassessment of traditional donor-recipient dynamics. In addition to using new rhetoric like ‘South-South cooperation' or ‘Win-Win', China has also eschewed classifications and practices of the traditional donors of the...

The emergence of China as a major development partner requires a reassessment of traditional donor-recipient dynamics. In addition to using new rhetoric like “South-South cooperation” or “Win-Win”, China has also eschewed classifications and practices of the traditional donors of the...

Employing newly available data on Chinese Covid-19 vaccine deliveries for a cross-section of 157 countries, we examine if China's vaccine diplomacy is driven by altruistic, enlightened self-interested motives or by purely strategic motives. According to the enlightened self-interested logic,...

Whether and how does the US react to China’s deployment of development finance for gathering allies from the developing world and even key Western partners that have contributed to sustaining the American-led liberal international order? We argue that Washington deploys dispositional balancing...