Alan Doss - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/rss/502664/feed Alan Doss is president of the Kofi Annan Foundation. A former special representative of the UN Secretary General to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Alan has worked for the United Nation on peacekeeping, development and humanitarian assignments around the world. In 1979 he was appointed deputy resident representative of UNDP, opening the first international development cooperation programme and office in China. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png Alan Doss - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com Foreign aid is often criticised as being a waste of taxpayers’ money. Commentators argue that too often it reinforces the power of the state to the detriment of private enterprise, while facilitating bureaucratic corruption that benefits unaccountable elites. I certainly agree that aid does not guarantee development progress. However, the recent death of Jiang Zemin, China’s former president, reminded me that aid, when used strategically in a conducive national context, can have an impact far... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3202112/foreign-aid-gave-chinas-economy-leg-1980s-political-pragmatism-did-rest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3202112/foreign-aid-gave-chinas-economy-leg-1980s-political-pragmatism-did-rest?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Dec 2022 19:30:11 +0000 Foreign aid gave China’s economy a leg up in the 1980s, but political pragmatism did the rest This is a year of notable anniversaries for the People’s Republic of China: it is the 70th anniversary of its founding in 1949 and also the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square tragedy in 1989. There is also another, more obscure but significant, one. In late 1979, at the request of the Chinese government, the United Nations launched an aid programme in China. This initiative signalled Beijing’s intention to look outwards for support for its modernisation programme. I was among the UN... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3035434/how-can-liberal-democracies-best-manage-chinas-re-emergence-great?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3035434/how-can-liberal-democracies-best-manage-chinas-re-emergence-great?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:00:06 +0000 How can liberal democracies best manage China’s re-emergence as a great power?