Strategic Regions in 21st Century Power Politics - Zones of Consensus and Zones of Conflict
Chapter Eight 128 to a set of stereotypes deemed unacceptable–the ‘Other.’ This denies the possibility of any meaningful discour ...
China in the Pacific Islands: Beyond the ‘Bad Dragon’ Narrative 129 publications even highlight elements of characterization cas ...
Chapter Eight 130 hinted at or explicitly stated. For example, the “communist giant’s”^30 authoritarian system was constantly fa ...
China in the Pacific Islands: Beyond the ‘Bad Dragon’ Narrative 131 tell us, count several Chinese monumental “white elephants,” ...
Chapter Eight 132 become a responsible regional stakeholder, that it cannot be socialized in the South Pacific: “They have diffe ...
China in the Pacific Islands: Beyond the ‘Bad Dragon’ Narrative 133 championing democracy, and never compromise on good governan ...
Chapter Eight 134 would never jeopardize their vital relationship with China for the sake of the South Pacific, the leyenda negr ...
China in the Pacific Islands: Beyond the ‘Bad Dragon’ Narrative 135 Chinese Aid to the Pacific Islands China’s involvement in th ...
Chapter Eight 136 aid-giving.^78 Leaving the official rhetoric aside, like all states, China’s foreign aid programmes are vehicl ...
China in the Pacific Islands: Beyond the ‘Bad Dragon’ Narrative 137 logic of the Pacific Island states in choosing their partner ...
Chapter Eight 138 interest, including Japan, the European Union, and the United States. For example, Philippa Brant reveals that ...
China in the Pacific Islands: Beyond the ‘Bad Dragon’ Narrative 139 Actually, the “gifts from the bad dragon” argument is not on ...
Chapter Eight 140 retail business focus to the domain of infrastructure and mining.”^102 The rise of China as an investor in the ...
China in the Pacific Islands: Beyond the ‘Bad Dragon’ Narrative 141 interest-free periods to nations such as Tonga, Samoa and th ...
Chapter Eight 142 “physiological” phenomenon.^115 Thus, using Chinese investment as evidence of a threat to the established geo- ...
China in the Pacific Islands: Beyond the ‘Bad Dragon’ Narrative 143 and other non-lethal equipment, and–more recently–training i ...
Chapter Eight 144 The United States maintains three flag territories, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana I ...
China in the Pacific Islands: Beyond the ‘Bad Dragon’ Narrative 145 China’s interests in the Pacific Islands prior to 2008 were ...
Chapter Eight 146 many island states have large fishing zones and promising seabed minerals deposits).^141 In light of these fac ...
China in the Pacific Islands: Beyond the ‘Bad Dragon’ Narrative 147 When looked at from this perspective, the records provide, a ...
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