英文摘要 |
This paper explores the factors that affect Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) to China. Japan provides three types of ODA to China: loans, grant aid, and technical cooperation projects. Japan employed ODA loans to assist China between 1979 and 2005, an important period of economic diplomacy between the two countries. Review of the existing literature shows the process of the formation of Japan’s economic foreign policy toward China was strongly influenced by changes in Sino-Japanese relations and by Japan’s ODA principles. Factors in Sino-Japanese relations led to both the initiation and termination of ODA loans to China. Japan’s ODA principles caused two shifts. First, most funding of ODA loans shifted from infrastructure programs to environmental and medical hygiene programs; secondly, technical cooperation projects surpassed grant aid. |