China's Economic Statecraft: Turning Wealth into Power

中国领导人越来越多地利用外援和海外投资等经济资源来影响其他国家的政策决定。为了实施经济治国之道，中国领导人依赖于他们的国有企业、官僚机构和地方官员，尽管他们往往是不可靠的中央政府代表。本项目运用一种创新的经济理论，研究了中央领导人的权力下放如何影响中国在亚洲大陆的经济治国方术的有效性。研究结果旨在明确中国在何种条件下能够将财富转化为权力——利用经济资源在海外施加政治影响。

Chinese leaders increasingly deploy economic resources such as foreign aid and overseas investments to influence policy decisions in other countries. To implement economic statecraft, China's leaders rely upon their state-owned companies, bureaucratic agencies, and local officials, even though they are often unreliable representatives of the central government. Applying an innovative economic theory, this project examines how central leaders' delegation of authority shapes the effectiveness of China's economic statecraft across mainland Asia. The results aim to specify the conditions under which China is able to translate wealth into power—to utilize economic resources to exert political influence abroad.