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Building the Image of China as a ‘Responsible Major Country’ in Advanced Economies

Subtitle: Did Beijing’s Covid-19 Aid Campaign Work?

Authors: Paltemaa, Lauri; Aubié, Hermann; Sookari, Tommi

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Publication year: 2025

Journal: European Journal of East Asian Studies

Journal name in source: European Journal of East Asian Studies

Volume: 24

Issue: 1

First page : 26

Last page: 50

ISSN: 1568-0584

eISSN: 1570-0615

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-02401006

Web address : https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-02401006

Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/491357988

Abstract

Drawing on a novel dataset collecting China’s Covid-19-related donations of personal protection equipment, and PEW survey data from 2019 to 2021, this paper argues that despite the historically unprecedented scale of China’s Covid-19 humanitarian aid to advanced economies in 2020, its country image effects appear in retrospect both mixed and short-lived. The findings help us to better understand the limits of Chinese humanitarian aid and disaster relief efforts as a form of soft power projection of making China appear as a ‘responsible great power’.

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The project has received funding from the Academy of Finland (grant number 323705: Security in China, sic