5. Rio Tinto and the (In)visible Hand of the State

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Oil, Iron, Mangoes, and Cash 1
5. Part I. On Economic Statecraft
6. 1. What Is Economic Statecraft? 11
7. 2. The Challenge of State Control 26
8. 3. Economics and China’s Grand Strategy 44
9. Part II. Securing Strategic Raw Materials
10. 4. “Going Out” and China’s Search for Energy Security 67
11. 5. Rio Tinto and the (In)visible Hand of the State 90
12. Part III. Cross-Strait Economic Statecraft
13. 6. Coercive Leverage across the Taiwan Strait 107
14. 7. Interest Transformation across the Taiwan Strait 131
15. Part IV. China’s Sovereign Wealth Funds
16. 8. State Administration of Foreign Exchange 163
17. 9. What Right Looks Like: The National Social Security Fund 179
18. 10. The China Investment Corporation 192
19. Concluding Implications 222
20. Appendix 1. Coding of the Independent Variables 235
21. Appendix 2. China Investment Corporation’s Direct Investments in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis 240
22. Notes 243
23. Index 297