Assessing China’s Trilateral Aid Cooperation and Foreign Aid Reform

Abstract

This chapter builds on the analysis in previous chapters and continues the discussion on China’s trilateral aid cooperation. It will provide an overview of Chinese trilateral aid cooperation, including development partnerships, prominent features, China’s official position and bureaucratic arrangement for trilateral aid cooperation. Trilateral aid cooperation, especially in China’s cases, will then be assessed. The chapter will also examine China’s foreign aid reform, of which trilateral aid cooperation is a manifestation, and the establishment of the CIDCA in 2018. This research has revolved around China’s motivations for trilateral aid cooperation. It concludes that China’s adoption of trilateral aid cooperation is