Japan’s Development Aid to China The Long-Running Foreign Policy of Engagement

Tsukasa Takamine, "Japan’s Development Aid to China: The Long-Running Foreign Policy of Engagement "
English | ISBN: 0415511461 | 2012 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Paradoxically, Japan provides massive amounts of development aid to China, despite Japan’s clear perception of China as a prime competitor in the Asia-Pacific region.

This clearly written and comprehensive volume provides an overview of the way Japan’s aid to China has developed since 1979. It explains the shifts that have taken place in Japan’s China policy in the 1990s against the background of international changes and domestic changes in both countries, and offers new insights into the way Japanese aid policy making functions, thereby providing an alternative view of Japanese policy making that might be applied to other areas. Through a series of case studies, it shows Japan’s increasing willingness to use development aid to China for strategic goals and explains a significant shift of priority project areas of Japan’s China aid in the 1990s, from industrial infrastructure to socio-environmental infrastructure.
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