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The post american world5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Relations between Latin America and Asia-by Asia in this case we refer to that broad swath of the Asian land mass that goes from East Asia through Southeast Asia all the way to South Asia-are undergoing a very special moment. Our empirical results are robust in terms of their consistency with the governments' UN voting similarity with China. ![]() China's FDI share has no significant effect on improving its state image in the Asia Pacific region, in particular-probably due to the memory of past wars with China and China's aggressive geopolitical strategy that focuses more on hard power competition. However, when China's FDI share crosses a higher threshold, democratic countries' unfavorable view toward China is compromised and the significant difference in favorability between democratic and nondemocratic countries is diminishing. Our analysis shows that while world public opinion becomes more favorable to China when its FDI share increases, even democratic countries remain less favorable toward this growing power. We argue that regime survival has motivated China to use FDI to improve its state image and induce the world to accept China as a "good" country without democracy. This study examines the effects of China's outward foreign direct investment (FDI) on buying its state image abroad. ![]()
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