Fuchs, Andreas; Kaplan, Lennart; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2022
patterns of Beijing’s so-called “mask diplomacy” and “vaccine diplomacy” compared to China’s pre-pandemic aid exports. First …, we find that China’s average monthly aid exports to Africa did not increase after the pandemic outbreak (in contrast to … significant shifts in the cross-country distribution of Chinese aid exports, creating both so-called aid darlings (e.g., Ethiopia …