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Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Research Article   
  Chapter 5 Analyzing the Introduction of Environmental and Social Guidelinesin China?s Foreign Investments with Regard to Issue Attention in the Myitsone Dam Controversy
  Author(s): Kensuke Yamaguchi* and Liu Dawei
  
  This chapter attempted to explain the link between the publication of the “Guidelines for Environmental Protection in Foreign Investment and Cooperation” and the first two stages of the issue attention cycle with regard to the stalled Myitsone hydropower project in Myanmar. As Downs’ (1972) theory suggests, the Guideline was published in 2013, immediately after attention on the issue and anti-Chinese sentiment in Myanmar peaked. The relevant stage in this case, as per Down’s Issue Attention Cycle model, is “Alarmed discovery and euphoric enthusiasm.” Therefore, it might be implied that the Issue Attention Cycle model, which was originally applicable to democratic institutions, could also apply to the decision-making process in China, a country characterized by a socialist market economy. The study recommends that international society should support.. View More»
  

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