PR China as a "Responsible Great Power": The Chinese model of foreign investment and assistance

Abstract

Shortly after its establishment, the People's Republic of China began to implement a policy of providing investments and assistance abroad. Although the motives for this were different in the decades that followed, the Chinese leadership never gave up on the decision to make foreign investment and assistance a central part of Chinese foreign policy. The author employs a structural-functional analysis and comparative analysis to prove the basic hypothesis that the main reason for the development of the Chinese model of foreign investment and assistance is the intention of the Chinese leadership to show that the People's Republic of China is a "responsible great power", one which contributes to the solving important global problems, while simultaneously working to achieve its most important goal, the "Chinese dream", by 2049.