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China’s State-owned Enterprises: Instruments of Its Foreign Strategy? / Nie, Wenjuan   Journal Article
Nie, Wenjuan Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article centers on the question of whether state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are instruments of China’s foreign strategy. A simplistic answer of yes or no is far from sufficient, as the positive view suffers from ignorance of SOEs’ agency, while the negative view is blind to the entrenched connections between SOEs and the government. It is obvious that SOEs have close connections with the Chinese government. However, whether these connections can be regarded as making SOEs a strategic instrument in China’s foreign policies remains to be further studied. This article starts with the various SOE-government relationship models in the ‘going out’, i.e. globalizing, endeavours of SOEs in Southeast Asia and examines the fitness and priorities of the two parties’ interests under each relationship model. The article concludes that under the government + SOE model, SOEs have long been the instruments of China’s foreign strategy. Under the SOE + government model, SOEs can be regarded as weak instruments of foreign strategy, while under the independent SOE model, SOEs are likely to function as profit-driven economic players.
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Xi Jinping’s foreign policy dilemma: One Belt, One Road or the South China Sea? / Nie, Wenjuan   Journal Article
Nie, Wenjuan Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article utilizes the elements of leadership, political performance and national interests to understand China’s foreign policy decision-making process. In contrast to a state-centred analysis, this article assumes that the supreme leadership’s view of political performance is the most important factor when it comes to foreign policy decision-making. it contends that so-called national interests are often manipulated to serve particular political agendas. Specifically, this article explores whether the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative or advancing China’s interests in the South China Sea can be better utilized to improve Chinese President Xi Jinping’s political performance. The comparison between the two issues incorporates the dimensions of feasibility, significance and morality. In the final analysis, this article finds that the OBOR is likely to be better utilized to enhance Xi’s political performance, which yields some salient implications for future trends in China’s foreign policy.
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