Beijing Review – August 01, 2019

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two sides of the same coin. No nation can

be insulated from the outside world when

facing interconnected global development

challenges like poverty, unemployment,

infectious diseases and terrorism.

As Chinese President Xi Jinping said at

the UN Office at Geneva in 2017: “China

will do well only when the world does well,

B

y providing various types of foreign

assistance, China has become an im-

portant contributor to international

development. While some say the largest

developing country in the world should fo-

cus on its own domestic goals rather than

international ones, actually, domestic de-

velopment and external development are

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Understanding China’s

Foreign Assistance Policy

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The author is an

assistant research fellow

at the China Institute of

International Studies