The contradictions in China's developmentalist foreign policy/
FERCHEN Matt
- 2023
Since the introduction of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, China has doubled down on its foreign policy developmentalism, reproducing and deepening the propensity to overpromise and underdeliver on its claims for development. Even in the face of the Covid pandemic and growing tensions with the United States, China has remained committed to promoting itself as an agent and engine of economic development on the global stage while also recalibrating the focus of development-focused policies to include health, environmental, and digital aims.