Whether Japan has Realized its National Interests through the ODA to
China: A Study on Japan’s ODA to China
- QIAN QIN
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Abstract
This paper introduces the history of Japan's ODA to China, and examines
the realisation of national interests through both quantitative and
qualitative methods. Even though most scholars acknowledged that
providing foreign aid is always connected to the national interests of
the donor countries, it should be further discussed what those national
interests are and how those interests are realised. This paper therefore
summarised the national role conception and categories of national
interests of Japan regarding the ODA policy to China through narrative
analysis based on the role theory. In general, Japan's ODA to China has
achieved some of the diplomatic objectives successfully, but failed to
achieve all.