“…46 Similarly, Chinese involvement in the peacekeeping mission in the DRC and its diplomatic contributions to the DRC's peace process are indicative of China's general shift towards increased multilateral engagement. 47 49 China has not yet sent combat troops to any UN peacekeeping mission, but it has sent military observers, civilian police and medical, logistical and transport support teams. 50 These contributions raise China's profile at the UN and help project its identity as a responsible actor in international politics.…”
Section: A Responsible Power: Stabilization and The Drc Peace Processmentioning
“…46 Similarly, Chinese involvement in the peacekeeping mission in the DRC and its diplomatic contributions to the DRC's peace process are indicative of China's general shift towards increased multilateral engagement. 47 49 China has not yet sent combat troops to any UN peacekeeping mission, but it has sent military observers, civilian police and medical, logistical and transport support teams. 50 These contributions raise China's profile at the UN and help project its identity as a responsible actor in international politics.…”
Section: A Responsible Power: Stabilization and The Drc Peace Processmentioning
“…But a countervailing factor is that, throughout China's 20-year involvement in UN peacekeeping, not a single Chinese peacekeeper has been charged with misconduct, and the Chinese work ethic has been praised by many policymakers and analysts. 43 Based on the above analysis of Cambodian attitudes towards China, how could the Chinese government and its peacekeepers gain the trust of local populations in Sudan, and thereby successfully carry out a 'charm offensive' there?…”
Section: Implications With Regard To China's Peacekeeping In Sudanmentioning
“…China's changing attitude towards the principle of use of force is well reflected in its contribution of security troops to PKOs in recent years. The international community has long expected China to contribute "combat troops" to PKOs (International Crisis Group 2009; Gill and Huang 2009). Since the early 1990s, China had for a long period of time refrained from contributing security troops to PKOs.…”
Section: Three Fundamental Peacekeeping Principlesmentioning
The 1,2 past four decades we have witnessed China's increasingly active participation in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (PKOs). The existing literature on this issue has an obvious feature: many writers have focused on policy analysis or review (Stahle 2008; Gill and Huang 2009; International Crisis Group 2009; Lanteigne 2014). According to those analysts, China's active participation in PKOs is largely driven by a long list of pragmatic needs or interests ranging from belief in multilateralism and image building to more traditional concerns such as isolating separatist forces in Taiwan and securing its overseas investments (Gill and Huang 2009). Hence, it has been very difficult for different writers to agree on the core reason behind China's changing attitude towards UN peacekeeping. Some writers have applied theoretical analysis to their
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