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| Title: | China’s Raw Materials Diplomacy and Governance Cycle: Towards Sustainable Mining and Resource Extraction? |
| Authors: | Biedermann, Reinhard |
| Date: | 2018-08 |
| Issue Date: | 2018-11-29 12:10:27 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | China’s raw materials diplomacy and unregulated purchasing of minerals in
Africa and Latin America, as well as its domestic raw materials export quota, have for
years been eyed with suspicion by state and private actors. Industrialized countries
want to uphold and extend free market access to raw materials, but also strengthen their
political accountability and sustainability. However, critics argue that in contrast,
China, the world’s largest metals and minerals trading power, has taken the opposite
course, ignoring social and environmental standards, reinforcing authoritarian governments,
and erecting trade barriers. China is faced with several interrelated challenges
in its resource diplomacy and governance. This article claims that an
identifiable, chronological connection and pattern has existed between China’s aid and
investment diplomacy for resources since the late 1990s, free trade agreements since the
2000s, Beijing’s resource nationalism since the 2010s, and the reform process of national
and privately organized transnational governance towards sustainability in the
present day. Is China socializing with emerging transnational standards on mining and
resource extraction in the developing world, and if so, why? This article argues that
China’s raw materials governance, including corporate governance, has entered a
phase of reform to pacify the external environment and to implement the Belt and Road
Initiative. In theoretical terms, China’s raw materials governance will continue to
emphasize neoliberal and neo-mercantilist goals, cushioned by globalist features. |
| Relation: | Issues & Studies: A Social Science Quarterly on China, Taiwan, and East Asian Affairs Vol. 54, No. 4 (August 2018) 1840009 (31 pages) |
| DOI: | 10.1142/S101325111840009X |
| Appears in Collections: | [Department of Global Political Economy] Journal Article
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