Wednesday, April 21, 2021

China's neutered civil society will make it hard for it to deliver on the SDGs

 I recently wrote this blogpost for Business and Human Rights Resource Center (BHRRC) and am reposting it here.

China’s White Paper and the BRI: Can we expect China to deliver on the SDGs? 

 While China’s new White Paper for International Development Cooperation opens opportunities for it to make substantial contributions to the SDGs through south-south cooperation and China-backed initiatives such as BRI, I argue the top-down development approach of China and the lack of an active civil society might hinder the delivery of its commitment to sustainable and inclusive growth in the global South. 

 The English-language blogpost can be found on BRHHC's website, https://www.bhrrc.org/en/blog/chinas-white-paper-and-the-bri-can-we-expect-china-to-deliver-on-the-sdgs/ 

 The Chinese version of the blogpost can be found here (中文版本的链接)