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DIPLOMACY (ECONOMIC PROSPERITY (SUCCESSFUL (Belt & Road Initiative…

- - - - Use pandas to build international relationships with other countries that have beneficial resources to China
      - E.g. Scotland's salmon, Edinburgh Zoo got 2 pandas in 2011
      - E.g. Australia's uranium, Adelaide Zoo got two pandas in 2011
    - - China claims it promotes "mutual benefit ... growth, peace and stability"
      - Push for Chinese global dominance in global affairs with a China centred trading network
      - Development strategy adopted by the Chinese government involving infrastructure developments and investments
      - Will increase China's trade (possible by $1 trillion US per year)
- - - - China uses diplomatic power in the UN to prevent Taiwan from becoming a state and backs it up with economic sanctions
      - China positions missiles towards Taiwan and performs various military practices offshore
      - People's Republic of China supports a version of the One-China policy, which states that Taiwan and mainland China are both part of China and that the IRC is the only legitimate government of China
      - The PRC refuses to have diplomatic relations with any notion
      - The US remains one of the main allies of the country, through the Taiwan Relations Act, has continued selling arms and providing military training to the Armed Forces
    - - Austria planned to meet with Dalai Lama in 2013
        
        China "plays the panda card" to prevent Austria from meeting with him
        
        Using a pair of pandas in Schönbrunn Zoo, the Chinese government wants Austria to back down over human rights and Tibet, an independent territory that now belongs to the People’s Republic of China. Similar diplomatic pressure has been applied to Britain, France, and Germany.
        
        China resigned the 10 year lease on the pandas if the state agreed to not recognise Tibet and its leader
        
        Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei characterized the visit as a “severe interference with China’s internal affairs” which “hurt the feelings of Chinese people”
        
        Usually pressure states to shun Dalai Lama through economic sanctions
- - - - China makes bilateral agreements, one on one with countries so it is less likely to be over-powered in decisions
      - They are generally regarded as weaker than the investment treaties the United States seeks to negotiate.
      - China has bilateral investment agreements with over 100 countries and economies, including Austria, the Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.
    - - China entices states with aid, to not recognise Taiwan as a state
      - E.g. Vanuatu use to recognise Taiwan but now does not and receives aid from China
    - - China has a track record of revoking panda loans from countries that have displeased it
      - USA's 23 year lease on Giant Panda's ended on the 27th of April 2019
      - The US still has panda's in Washington, Atlanta and Memphis zoos. However, US and China are currently in a trade war and there are rising tensions between the states in a battle for power so China may evoke the loans
  - - - "one that engages in unwanted, aggressive behaviour by taking advantage of imbalance of power"
      - US president Donald Trump signed the Taiwan Travel Act in 2018 to encourage official visits between the US and Taiwan, China staged war games against Taiwan and bribed smaller states like the Dominican Republic to break diplomatic ties with it while the US faced no consequences
      - When the Us installed its THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea, China used its economic leverage to retaliate against South Korea through heavy- handed economic sanctions in 2017 but did not give the same sanction against the US
      - Beijing has a record of acting only against the weaker side and not against more powerful states such as the US
    - - E.g. Used veto in the UN related to Syria
        
        Follows China’s foreign policy doctrine of non-intervention in the affairs of other states
        
        US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley said "They put their friends in the Assad regime ahead of our global security”
        
        China is seen as not enforcing international norms of behaviour, like shaming dictatorship regimes.
- - - - The Chinese Government deems Free Trade Agreements as a "new platform to further opening top to the outside and speeding up domestic reforms"
      - China has bilateral investment agreements with Japan and South Korea
      - China and Australian Free Trade Agreement 2015
        
        The agreement unlocks significant opportunities for Australia in China, which is Australia’s largest export market for goods and services, accounting for nearly a third of total exports, and a growing source of foreign investment
        
        Makes goods cheaper for consumers in both countries as 5% tariffs is phased out
        
        Australian firms will have some rights to sue Chinese governments for policy changes that adversely affect their interests and Chinese firms will have some rights to sue Australian governments for policy changes that adversely affect their interests
        
        HOWEVER, Chinese investors in projects valued over $150 million will receive additional rights to bring in temporary migrant workers to Australia without local labour market testing
  - - - Beijing has a record of acting only against the weaker side and not against more powerful states such as the US
      - When the US installed its THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea, China used its economic leverage to retaliate against South Korea through heavy- handed economic sanctions in 2017 but did not give the same sanction against the US
      - US president Donald Trump signed the Taiwan Travel Act in 2018 to encourage official visits between the US and Taiwan, China staged war games against Taiwan and bribed smaller states like the Dominican Republic to break diplomatic ties with it while the US faced no consequences
    - - China has invested $1.6b USD into Cambodia, with contracts for another $17b USD. This has increased Cambodia’s economy.
      - 210,000 Chinese workers have moved into Sihanoukville, Cambodia, driving up property prices, rent, cost of living and changing the cultural make-up of the city.
      - This has increased Cambodian resentment in China