Foreign Aid Recipient Countries

Foreign aid is an important political and economic phenomenon in internationalpolitics. After World War II, foreign aid, which leaded by the developed countries, hasgradually become an important part in the international relations. In today’s internationalarena, most countries have close ties with foreign aid, some are foreign aid providers andsome are foreign aid recipients, while some are both providers and recipients that have adual status in the foreign aid.After the establishment of P.R China, especially in the new century, giving andreceiving aid has always been an important part of China’s diplomacy, a guarantee forChina’s rapid development, an important part of China’s international obligations. Thestudies on China’s dual status in the foreign aid in the early of21st century will conduciveto China’s self-understanding of its status in the foreign aid fields, help to promote insiderand outsider’s understanding and support for China’s aid cause, conducive to understandthe condition, rationality and the developing trend of China’s status and academically, helpto deepen the dual status study in the foreign aid fields.Based on the existing research, the thesis applied statistical analysis, case studies,comparative analysis and other methods, examined China’s dual status in a largetheoretical framework and in the background of international relations, discovered thatthere was a correlation between a country’s dual status in the aid and its position in theinternational relations. When a country is economically a developing one, while it is also agreat power or is interested in becoming a great power, it is easy for the country becominga dual status in the aid. China is typical in these two areas, which makes China’s dualstatus inevitable. The thesis combines theory and reality, analyzing the rationality ofChina’s dual status in the aid fields, exploring the different changing trends of China’s dualstatus during the developing process of dual aid. The thesis has a strong sense of realconcern and explores regularity of an international phenomenon.