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Chinese Foreign Aid “Clearly About China’s Self-interest”

While China’s increasing foreign investments in nations in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East have been well documented over the past 15 years, Beijing’s foreign assistance spending is officially classified as a state secret. A report and dataset published today by the AidData Research Lab at the College of William and Mary has revealed that the amount of assistance funds flowing out of China from 2000-2014 was nearly equal to that of the U.S., the world’s