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China's Strong Arm - Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad (Hardcover)
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China's Strong Arm - Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad (Hardcover)
Series: Adelphi series
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China has long adhered to a principle of non-interference in other
states affairs. However, as more of its companies have been
investing in projects overseas, and millions of its nationals are
travelling abroad, Beijing is finding itself progressively involved
in other countries through the need to protect these interests and
citizens. During the turmoil of the Arab Spring in 2011, China was
compelled to evacuate more than 35,000 Chinese workers and
expatriates from Libya, and later it led the hunt for the killers
of 13 Chinese sailors in the Golden Triangle region of the Mekong
River. In 2015, Beijing sent a combat battalion to join the UN
peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, where it has huge oil
ventures. Its plans to construct a New Silk Road will mean new
commercial endeavours to protect in Pakistan. The shift in Chinese
foreign policy towards a more interventionist approach in
protecting nationals abroad has not been the result of grand
strategy, but an adjustment to unfolding events. The large risk
appetite of state-owned Chinese business is inexorably drawing the
Chinese state into security hotspots, and as China becomes a great
power its people are openly calling on their government to protect
compatriots caught in crises overseas, including via military
means. While much attention has focused on Beijing s increasingly
assertive behaviour in disputed Asian seas, this book highlights
another equally important area of change, with potentially
far-reaching consequences for international security.
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