The Heyday of Beijing's Participation in the Tumen River Area Development Programme, 1990-95: a political explanation
Titel:
The Heyday of Beijing's Participation in the Tumen River Area Development Programme, 1990-95: a political explanation
Auteur:
Blanchard, Jean-Marc F.
Verschenen in:
The journal of contemporary China
Paginering:
Jaargang 9 (2000) nr. 24 pagina's 271-290
Jaar:
2000-07-01
Inhoud:
From 1990 to 1995, Beijing was an active participant in the Tumen River Area Development Programme (TRADP), a multinational economic scheme to develop the region around the Tumen River Delta. Indeed, it is reasonable to characterize China as the most supportive of all the countries involved in the TRADP during this period. An economic-centered account cannot adequately explain Beijing's involvement because the TRADP never offered China meaningful economic gains. Instead, we must turn to political factors to understand China's interest in and support for this project. Specifically, Beijing was supportive of the TRADP because of three political benefits that the project seemed to offer. First, it presented China with a prospective means to balance against the economic and political threat posed by Japan. Second, it supplied China with potential options to counter the political threat generated by Western protectionism and bloc formation. Third, it gave China additional options to ensure peace and stability on the strategic Korean peninsula.
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