Briefing Paper

Emerging powers in their regions: China’s impact on its neighbours’ political systems

Bader, Julia
Briefing Paper (1/2010)

Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Dt. Ausg. u.d.T.: Eine Regionalmacht in ihrem regionalen Umfeld: Chinas Einfluss auf die politischen Strukturen seiner Nachbarn
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 1/2010)

Driven mainly by domestic imperatives, China has emerged as a new economic and political player in its region. This rise coincides with a tendency towards autocratisation in Asia that has been facilitated to some extent by a convergence of the interests of China’s and its neighbours’ governments. Faced with this reality, the West should reflect on its strategies for the further enhancement of human development: it should integrate China into the donor architecture, help it to improve its domestic governance and pursue a more principled engagement in Asian developing countries.