THREAD #China has issued the new #ChineseAid White Paper. Originally rumoured to come out in 2016 and 2018, it took till 2021. Thus suggest a major discussion process behind it, most notably a shift from #aid to #development that already started with the naming of @cidcaofficial.

The shift from #aid to #development was visibly initiated in 2018, when #China named its new agency #CIDCA "China International Development Cooperation Agency" and not "Foreign Aid Agency". (I wrote about in an analysis for @CarnegieBeijing in Sep '19: https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/09/02/ins-and-outs-of-china-s-international-development-agency-pub-79739)

@StellaHongZhang gives a first analysis of the theoretical changes behind the new #ChineseAid White Paper in this great thread: https://twitter.com/StellaHongZhang/status/1348185436468830212?s=20. She points out that there are differences between the original document and the English translation.

The White Paper is titled "China's International Development Cooperation in the New Era" 新时代的中国国际发展合作 - clearly linking it to the political ideas of Xi Jinping, as "the new era" is Xi. For Chinese version see: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/S3Nc1iVc8APsOkEnRDyNWQ; English: http://xinhuanet.com/english/2021-0