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China's Strong Arm: Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad (Paperback) - Taylor & Francis
China's Strong Arm: Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad (Adelphi Book 451) eBook: Jonas Parello-Plesner, Mathieu Duchâtel: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
China's Strong Arm
Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad
By Jonas Parello-Plesner, Mathieu Duchâtel
China has long adhered to a principle of ‘non-interference’ in other states’ affairs. However, as more of its companies have been investing in projects overseas, and millions of its nationals are travelling abroad, Beijing is finding itself progressively involved in other countries – through the need to protect these interests and citizens.
During the turmoil of the Arab Spring in 2011, China was compelled to evacuate more than 35,000 Chinese workers and expatriates from Libya, and later it led the hunt for the killers of 13 Chinese sailors in the Golden Triangle region of the Mekong River. In 2015, Beijing sent a combat battalion to join the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, where it has huge oil ventures. Its plans to construct a New Silk Road will mean new commercial endeavours to protect in Pakistan.
The shift in Chinese foreign policy towards a more interventionist approach in protecting nationals abroad has not been the result of grand strategy, but an adjustment to unfolding events. The large risk appetite of state-owned Chinese business is inexorably drawing the Chinese state into security hotspots, and as China becomes a great power its people are openly calling on their government to protect compatriots caught in crises overseas, including via military means.
While much attention has focused on Beijing’s increasingly assertive behaviour in disputed Asian seas, this book highlights another equally important area of change, with potentially far-reaching consequences for international security.
Ana Palacio; former Spanish foreign minister and former Senior Vice President of the World Bank:
Bill Emmott, author of Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade; and former editor in chief, The Economist:
Shi Yinhong, Governmental advisor and Professor of International Relations,Renmin University of China:
China's Strong Arm: Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad (Adelphi Book 451) eBook: Jonas Parello-Plesner, Mathieu Duchâtel: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
China's Strong Arm
Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad
By Jonas Parello-Plesner, Mathieu Duchâtel
China has long adhered to a principle of ‘non-interference’ in other states’ affairs. However, as more of its companies have been investing in projects overseas, and millions of its nationals are travelling abroad, Beijing is finding itself progressively involved in other countries – through the need to protect these interests and citizens.
During the turmoil of the Arab Spring in 2011, China was compelled to evacuate more than 35,000 Chinese workers and expatriates from Libya, and later it led the hunt for the killers of 13 Chinese sailors in the Golden Triangle region of the Mekong River. In 2015, Beijing sent a combat battalion to join the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, where it has huge oil ventures. Its plans to construct a New Silk Road will mean new commercial endeavours to protect in Pakistan.
The shift in Chinese foreign policy towards a more interventionist approach in protecting nationals abroad has not been the result of grand strategy, but an adjustment to unfolding events. The large risk appetite of state-owned Chinese business is inexorably drawing the Chinese state into security hotspots, and as China becomes a great power its people are openly calling on their government to protect compatriots caught in crises overseas, including via military means.
While much attention has focused on Beijing’s increasingly assertive behaviour in disputed Asian seas, this book highlights another equally important area of change, with potentially far-reaching consequences for international security.
China's Foreign Direct Investment (US$ Billion)
Ana Palacio; former Spanish foreign minister and former Senior Vice President of the World Bank:
‘The inherent complexity of China´s rise requires serious analysis of a range of issues. This detailed yet highly approachable volume unlocks an important but until now largely overlooked piece of this puzzle, Beijing’s mobilization in defense of its citizens and interests abroad. Through it a clearer picture of the direction and implications of China´s ascent materializes.’
Bill Emmott, author of Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade; and former editor in chief, The Economist:
‘This book adds greatly to our understanding of China’s complex and rapidly evolving engagement with the outside world. It presents a convincing thesis: that force of circumstance will oblige China to become a global power, regardless of its stated non-interventionist policy.’
Shi Yinhong, Governmental advisor and Professor of International Relations,Renmin University of China:
‘A really significant and innovative book, demonstrating the risks that accompany China investing and ending workers abroad, and the necessity of a more interventionist policy to protect them.’

There is no short cut/other way than that. With great power comes great responsibility, seems China wants one without the other which is impossible in today's world. So it will have to first start with reforming its so called non interventionist policy.