Alvin Camba's guest appearances

Alvin Camba

The Belt and Road Podcast 

Deep in the SEA with Mirko Giordani

Kishore Mahbubani

Muhammad Habib

Douglas Paal

Erin Murphy

Joshua Kurlantzick

Rebecca Ray

Lauren Baker

Vanessa Lamb

Ma Xinyue

Michael Boulle

Mark Grimsditch

Assel Bitabarova

Charles Stevens

Scott Wingo

Tom Baxter

OwlTail

On this episode Erik speaks with returning guest Dr. Alvin Camba about his latest research paper "How Chinese firms approach investment risk: strong leaders, cancellation, and pushback" (link to paper)This groundbreaking research uses hundreds of in-depth interviews with top officials from China, Chinese SOEs, state-owned banks as well as Philippine and Indonesian political and economic elite to get a glimpse at how Chinese firms view the strength of a foreign leader, how that affects their investment decisions and how miscalculating strength can lead to undesirable outcomes for Chinese investors and/or State.Alvin Camba is an assistant professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He received his PhD in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University and is also a non-resident fellow at the Climate Policy Lab at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Recommendations Alvin: 1. How Duterte Strong-Armed Chinese Dam-builders but weakened Philippine Institutions2. How China Lends: A Rare look into 100 debt contracts with foreign governments.  Anna Gelpern, Sebastian Horn, Scott Morris, Brad Parks, Christopher Trebesch at AIDDATAErik:1. Get a treadmill desk! 2. The nihilistic electronic noise music of Pharmakon - specifically recommending the song No Natural Order  

On this episode Erik speaks with returning guest Dr. Alvin Camba about his latest research paper "How Chinese firms approach investment risk: strong leaders, cancellation, and pushback"<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09692290.2021.1947345?journalCode=rrip20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> (link to paper)</a> This groundbreaking research uses hundreds of in-depth interviews with top officials from China, Chinese SOEs, state-owned banks as well as Philippine and Indonesian political and economic elite to get a glimpse at how Chinese firms view the strength of a foreign leader, how that affects their investment decisions and how miscalculating strength can lead to undesirable outcomes for Chinese investors and/or State. Alvin Camba is an assistant professor at the <a href="https://korbel.du.edu/news-events/all-articles/korbel-school-welcomes-new-faculty" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Josef Korbel School of International Studies</a> at the University of Denver. He received his PhD in <a href="https://soc.jhu.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sociology</a> from Johns Hopkins University and is also a non-resident fellow at the Climate Policy Lab at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Recommendations Alvin: 1. <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/06/15/how-duterte-strong-armed-chinese-dam-builders-but-weakened-philippine-institutions-pub-84764" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How Duterte Strong-Armed Chinese Dam-builders but weakened Philippine Institutions</a> 2. <a href="https://www.aiddata.org/publications/how-china-lends" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How China Lends: A Rare look into 100 debt contracts with foreign governments.</a>  Anna Gelpern, Sebastian Horn, Scott Morris, Brad Parks, Christopher Trebesch at AIDDATA Erik: 1. Get a treadmill desk! 2. The nihilistic electronic noise music of Pharmakon - specifically recommending the song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQfNUbg3TSs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">No Natural Order</a>

How Do Chinese Firms Approach Overseas Investment Risk? w/ Alvin Camba

Rodrigo Duterte is famous for his quite unusual and soft stance towards China. Filipinos, in general, have a deep distrust for China and you maybe believe that they distrust Duterte for his “love affairs” with Beijing. Wrong! Duterte has been enjoying the highest approval rate since the Marcos’ Administration.But what is the state-of-the-art of Manila’s economic dealings with Beijing? The Philippines are, together with Brunei, the South East Asian country, which has had the lowest level of Chinese investment. Differently from countries like Malaysia, where the political backlash against Chinese conditions on lending money, The Philippines never found themselves in that position. The Philippines are in desperate need of foreign investments, and the Chinese capitals are the easiest available on the shelf.Do Europeans and Americans have their share of responsibility for putting The Philippines in the arms and hands of Chinese money? Yes, they have. There is the credence that money from democratic countries can help to democratize authoritarian regimes. Now, Duterte’s regime is not even near to perfect democracy. It is a regime in a fierce war against drug lords and terrorists, striving for a better economy and less poverty. It is what it is, no less and no more. Differently from western money, Chinese money doesn’t look at the human rights record of The Philippines, and they are more than welcomed for this reason.

Rodrigo Duterte is famous for his quite unusual and soft stance towards China. Filipinos, in general, have a deep distrust for China and you maybe believe that they distrust Duterte for his “love affairs” with Beijing. Wrong! Duterte has been enjoying the highest approval rate since the Marcos’ Administration. But what is the state-of-the-art of Manila’s economic dealings with Beijing? The Philippines are, together with Brunei, the South East Asian country, which has had the lowest level of Chinese investment. Differently from countries like Malaysia, where the political backlash against Chinese conditions on lending money, The Philippines never found themselves in that position. The Philippines are in desperate need of foreign investments, and the Chinese capitals are the easiest available on the shelf. Do Europeans and Americans have their share of responsibility for putting The Philippines in the arms and hands of Chinese money? Yes, they have. There is the credence that money from democratic countries can help to democratize authoritarian regimes. Now, Duterte’s regime is not even near to perfect democracy. It is a regime in a fierce war against drug lords and terrorists, striving for a better economy and less poverty. It is what it is, no less and no more. Differently from western money, Chinese money doesn’t look at the human rights record of The Philippines, and they are more than welcomed for this reason.

If westerners are naive about Duterte, Chinese money is not – With Alvin Camba

On this episode, Erik Myxter-iino has a conversation with Sociology Ph.D. Candidate at Johns Hopkins University Alvin Camba about his soon-to-be-published work - Reexamining China and South-South Relations: Chinese State-backed and Flexible Private Capitals in the Philippines.In it, Alvin analyzes the different types of Chinese capitals and how they interact with different political eras in the Philippines.Recommendations: Alvin - The China Boom: Why China will not rule the World by Ho-fung Hung Erik -  Why is the White House Scuttling its Biggest Development Win? Four Hidden Daggers Pointed at the Heart of the New USDFC by Todd Moss and Erin Collinson 

On this episode, Erik Myxter-iino has a conversation with Sociology Ph.D. Candidate at Johns Hopkins University Alvin Camba about his soon-to-be-published work - Reexamining China and South-South Relations: Chinese State-backed and Flexible Private Capitals in the Philippines. In it, Alvin analyzes the different types of Chinese capitals and how they interact with different political eras in the Philippines. Recommendations: Alvin - <a href="https://www.amazon.com/China-Boom-Will-World-Contemporary/dp/023116419X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The China Boom</a>: Why China will not rule the World by Ho-fung Hung Erik -  <a href="https://www.cgdev.org/blog/why-white-house-scuttling-its-biggest-development-win-four-hidden-daggers-pointed-heart-new" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why is the White House Scuttling its Biggest Development Win</a>? Four Hidden Daggers Pointed at the Heart of the New USDFC by Todd Moss and Erin Collinson