The Chinese government has more control over more wealth than any
other government in world history. With the Communist Party
controlling the "commanding heights" of the world's second-largest
economy, China appears ideally structured to pursue economic
statecraft, using economic resources to advance its foreign policy
goals. Yet as this book shows, domestic complications frequently
constrain Chinese leaders. They have responded with a distinctive
approach to economic statecraft: orchestration. Drawing upon
extensive field research across Asia and Europe, Orchestration
traces the origins, operations, and effectiveness of China's
economic statecraft. In this book, James Reilly examines the ideas
and institutions at the heart of China's approach to economic
statecraft, and assesses Beijing's orchestration in four cases:
Myanmar, North Korea, Western Europe, and Central/Eastern Europe.
China's unique experience as a planned economy, and then a
developmental state, all under a single Leninist party, left
Chinese leaders with unchallenged authority over their economy.
However, despite successfully mobilizing companies, banks, and
local officials to rapidly expand trade and investment abroad,
Chinese leaders largely failed to influence key policy decisions
overseas. For countries around the world, economic engagement with
China thus yields more benefits with fewer costs than generally
assumed. Orchestration engages three central questions. First, why
does China deploy economic statecraft in this particular fashion?
Secondly, when is China's economic statecraft most effective?
Finally, what can the China case tell us about economic statecraft
more broadly? The findings show how China uses economic resources
to exert influence abroad and identify when Beijing is most
effective. By exploring the domestic drivers of China's economic
statecraft, this book helps launch a new research field: the
comparative study of economic statecraft.
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