Chinese foreign aid data

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China treats its foreign aid like a state secret. New research aims to reveal it.
by Adam Taylor October 11, 2017
Since the turn of the century, China has become an unavoidable global provider of foreign assistance, funding everything from opera houses in Algeria to tobacco farms in Zimbabwe.

Try to find in-depth data about these projects, however, and you are mostly out of luck. China treats its foreign assistance budget like a state secret, refusing to work with international bodies that try to coordinate and quantify foreign development funding. In part due to this paucity of information, a reputation has spread among Western critics that China is a “rogue donor” — one that lavishes illiberal regimes with cash to plunder raw materials for its own growth.

An ambitious new research project released this week challenges that assumption by producing the first-ever global data set on Chinese overseas development spending between 2000 and 2014. Brad Parks, the executive director of AidData, a research lab at the College of William & Mary, said it took five years for a team of nearly 100 scholars and research assistants from all over the world to piece together data from 15,000 distinct information sources covering 4,300 projects in 140 different countries and territories.
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I'd like to see the full list of third world countries to see where New Zealand is on the list.
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'' China is a “rogue donor” — one that lavishes illiberal regimes with cash to plunder raw materials for its own growth.

And this differs from other nations how? :popcorn:
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Luigi wrote: Tue Apr 03, 2018 7:48 pm '' China is a “rogue donor” — one that lavishes illiberal regimes with cash to plunder raw materials for its own growth.

And this differs from other nations how? :popcorn:
In extent.
You can clearly see in the graph above that the countries most highly skewed toward China have the least savoury regimes, almost to the point of being an indicator in itself.
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According to Freedom House's rating system of political rights around the world, there were 49 nations in the world, as of 2015, that can be fairly categorized as "dictatorships." As of fiscal year 2015, the last year for which we have publicly available data, the federal government of the United States had been providing military assistance to 36 of them, courtesy of your tax dollars. The United States currently supports over 73 percent of the world's dictatorships!

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/4202 ... tatorships
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finbar wrote: Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:08 pm
Luigi wrote: Tue Apr 03, 2018 7:48 pm '' China is a “rogue donor” — one that lavishes illiberal regimes with cash to plunder raw materials for its own growth.

And this differs from other nations how? :popcorn:
In extent.
You can clearly see in the graph above that the countries most highly skewed toward China have the least savoury regimes, almost to the point of being an indicator in itself.
LOL. miguelito?

I would venture to say say that the most violent regimes are those which have caused the most deaths, economic theft and suffering: in which case, Murika and NATO head the score list by miles.
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And miles.
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