China Aid Blog

Devoted to making the blackbox of #ChineseAid less black through translations and commentaries of Chinese aid debates. Run by @RudyakMarina

[China Aid Blog @chinaaidblog]

NEW: Translation of #China's new "Measures for the Administration of Foreign Aid" that were issued jointly by #CIDCA, MFA and MOFCOM in August - with attention to changes to the previous, 2014 Foreign Aid Measures by MOFCOM. https://t.co/YkBRYDDKeX /1

[Marina Rudyak 卢玛丽 @RudyakMarina]

Deep dive into the #history of #ChineseAid. In the new @MIC_Journal special issue on the 'archeologies' of the #BRI, I trace "The Past in the Present of Chinese International Development Cooperation" & the origins of core principles of #China's foreign aid https://t.co/IPPGzXDEH5

[Marina Rudyak 卢玛丽 @RudyakMarina]

Huge thank you to @StellaHongZhang & @FangYiren for putting together this amazing issue of the @MIC_Journal on the archaeologies of the #BRI! Honoured to be part of it, w/t @MatthewErie @cfmeyskens @jagevans @adele_carrai @GregoryVRaymond @taomo_zhou @an_strel. Enjoy reading!

[Marina Rudyak 卢玛丽 @RudyakMarina]

Ahead of #FOCAC 2021 in Senegal, #China has issued a new #ChinaAfrica White Paper. Note the difference in titles between the original Chinese and the English version: The title in Chinese reads (only) "China-Africa Cooperation in the New Era".

[Marina Rudyak 卢玛丽 @RudyakMarina]

Happy to share with you our new paper on "China's lending landscape and approach to debt relief" - with @YunnanChen and @ODI_Global.
#China #ChineseAid #loans #debt
https://t.co/oY2hi8bGGf

[People's Map of Global China @GlobalChinaMap]

President Xi Jinping’s announcement in September dropped the bombshell that China will no longer ‘build new coal-fired power projects abroad’. In this new op-ed @inclusivedevt looks at the potential impacts for Cambodia. 1/ https://t.co/FYaXW0e9qz

[Boston University Global Development Policy Center @GDP_Center]

At #UNGA76, President Xi Jinping announced China "will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad," a major step in reducing carbon emissions during a critical decade. 

⚡ Our experts share their reactions and what to watch for next:

https://t.co/caKNSGugie

[People's Map of Global China @GlobalChinaMap]

In a UN General Assembly speech yesterday, Xi Jinping stated: ‘China will step up support for other developing countries in developing green and low-carbon energy and will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad.’ 1/ https://t.co/RnXN25Rbif

[Byford Tsang @byfordt]

Major development on 🇨🇳 climate policy: Xi pledges there will be "no more construction of coal projects abroad"

[Isabel Hilton @isabelhilton]

China is the biggest public backer of coal, but Chinese finance was only involved in 13% of coal power capacity outside China between 2013 and 2019. Much of the rest came from US investors like Vanguard, BlackRock and the Capital Group. https://t.co/LK39w0Gki5

[China Aid Blog @chinaaidblog]

For more perspectives, see this earlier thread by @StellaHongZhang: https://t.co/3tKK3njl2f

[China Aid Blog @chinaaidblog]

NEW: Translation of #China's new "Measures for the Administration of Foreign Aid" that were issued jointly by #CIDCA, MFA and MOFCOM in August - with attention to changes to the previous, 2014 Foreign Aid Measures by MOFCOM. https://t.co/YkBRYDDKeX /1

[China Aid Blog @chinaaidblog]

The changes to the draft and the time passed could point to the lengthy process of bureaucratic negotiation between the main actors of China's aid system. For more observations and the translation see the post at https://t.co/YkBRYDm9np. /End

[China Aid Blog @chinaaidblog]

The objective to set up a statistical system had already been included in the 2014 MOFCOM Measures, and it's unclear how much progress there has been since then. But, all the points mentioned here could present an interesting collaboration space between CIDCA and DAC donors. /5

[China Aid Blog @chinaaidblog]

CIDCA is also yet to develop criteria for project evaluation (Art. 44), a project information management and reporting system (Art. 44), and a foreign aid statistical system (Art. 47) for #ChineseAid. /4