"China has used foreign direct investment and development…" — Tanner N. Fleck and Jonathan G. Wissler (#c625)

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China has used foreign direct investment and development aid in the Philippines as economic statecraft aimed at countering U.S. presence and influence in the Asia-Pacific; the thesis tests this by applying geospatial, link, and social-network analysis to a dataset of Chinese investments in the Philippines from 2006 to 2016.

— In our words · Source: Economic preparation of the environment: A selective empirical analysis of Chinese investment in the Philippines (Tanner N. Fleck and Jonathan G. Wissler)

[Use when]

Money leaves a map — run investment flows through network analysis and grand strategy stops being a theory and becomes a diagram.

[Why it matters]

It turns "economic statecraft" from a buzzword into a measurable claim — investment flows, mapped as networks, either show strategic design or they don't.