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China’s soft power winning respect in D.C.?

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The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a Congressional panel that often takes a skeptical, hawkish view toward China, released a report that largely gave Beijing good grades for how it’s acting in international institutions.


“Across the board, China has become more effective in utilizing international institutions to advance national interests, and to extract what it needs from these institutions,” the report said. China’s growing role “is also frequently constructive and helpful for the organizations in which it participates.”


The report conducts a broad overview of China’s participation in the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, United Nations, Asian Development Bank and other institutions. It’s written by Stephen Olson and Clyde Prestowitz of the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington D.C. think tank that rose to prominence in the capital in the 1990s when it took a hard line on Japan but hasn’t recently had a high profile.


Chinese leaders have talked with increasing frequency in recent years about the importance of so-called soft power – using money, ideology and diplomacy to get its way. International institutions give Beijing a venue for exercising that power. A former deputy governor of China’s central bank, Zhu Min, is now a special adviser to the IMF’s managing director, and is likely to eventually become a deputy managing director of the institution. A prominent Chinese academic, Justin Yifu Lin, is the World Bank’s chief economist. While neither has changed the direction of their respective institutions much, they inevitably bring a deeper Chinese perspective to the decision making process.

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Justin Yifu Lin, the World Bank’s chief economist and senior vice president for development economics, speaks a press conference at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC, January 12, 2011.


For the most part, the authors find, China is a voracious consumer of analyses and advice offered by the various institutions and their research departments. “China sees the value in generating an independent viewpoint,” the authors note. In one Asian regional organization, they write, staffers joke that if they can’t find a study, they should ask the Chinese for a copy because they’ll surely have it.


Sometimes, though, the Chinese use their position to stall or frustrate initiatives, as when it helped torpedo the Copenhagen climate change conference. Beijing, for example, hasn’t fully backed the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum’s effort for a broad trade deal – though the U.S. hasn’t been jumping to push that one either recently.


“In these cases, China is like a soccer team that can be content with a nil-nil draw,” . “It does not need to put the ball in the back of the net in order to win – it can simply deflect the ball out of bounds.” That strategy often infuriates U.S.and European negotiators who generally press for new initiatives in trade and finance.


On security issues, the report outlines China’s focus on Africa’s resources, without regard to the ethical issues of backing bloody regimes in Sudan and elsewhere. But it does note that Chinese diplomats sometimes work behind the scenes for change. It also notes that China made a big change in policy when it sent peacekeepers to Haiti in 2004 –the first time it dispatched troops for a U.N. mission to a country that recognizes Taiwan.


In New York on Thursday, China abstained, but didn’t veto, a U.N. security council resolution authorizing military action against the Libyan government. Of the five permanent members of the security council, the report says, China “by a wide margin” is the nation least likely to exercise its veto right.(From Wall Street Journal)
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