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Article: China’s diplomatic strategies in response to economic disputes in Myanmar
Title | China’s diplomatic strategies in response to economic disputes in Myanmar |
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Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://irap.oxfordjournals.org/ |
Citation | International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 2020, v. 20 n. 2, p. 307-336 How to Cite? |
Abstract | How do societal actors in the host country matter to Beijing’s diplomatic strategies? In the course of political transition in Myanmar, the Myitsone Dam was suspended in 2011, and the China–Myanmar High-Speed Railway was reportedly halted in 2014. Since then, Beijing is said to have adopted public diplomacy in response to these economic setbacks. However, this article finds variations in Beijing’s approaches; Beijing actively engaged with the dam challengers, but not the railway opponents, who offered less of a challenge. Moreover, Beijing tolerated the project’s suspension in the dam case, but ramped up pressure in the railway case by increasing Naypyitaw’s costs of defection. Beijing’s inconsistent diplomatic approaches are attributed to different levels of social opposition observed in the anti-Chinese project movements. As such, Beijing has the propensity to bypass societal actors and pressure Naypyitaw for project continuation if it perceives that social opposition is not a major obstacle in bilateral economic cooperation. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/278611 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.412 |
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dc.contributor.author | Chan, DSW | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-21T02:10:45Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-21T02:10:45Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 2020, v. 20 n. 2, p. 307-336 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1470-482X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/278611 | - |
dc.description.abstract | How do societal actors in the host country matter to Beijing’s diplomatic strategies? In the course of political transition in Myanmar, the Myitsone Dam was suspended in 2011, and the China–Myanmar High-Speed Railway was reportedly halted in 2014. Since then, Beijing is said to have adopted public diplomacy in response to these economic setbacks. However, this article finds variations in Beijing’s approaches; Beijing actively engaged with the dam challengers, but not the railway opponents, who offered less of a challenge. Moreover, Beijing tolerated the project’s suspension in the dam case, but ramped up pressure in the railway case by increasing Naypyitaw’s costs of defection. Beijing’s inconsistent diplomatic approaches are attributed to different levels of social opposition observed in the anti-Chinese project movements. As such, Beijing has the propensity to bypass societal actors and pressure Naypyitaw for project continuation if it perceives that social opposition is not a major obstacle in bilateral economic cooperation. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://irap.oxfordjournals.org/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Relations of the Asia-Pacific | - |
dc.title | China’s diplomatic strategies in response to economic disputes in Myanmar | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Chan, DSW: chanszewan@connect.hku.hk | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/irap/lcy026 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85087150760 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 307433 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 20 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 307 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 336 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000537412000005 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1470-482X | - |