Natural resource exports and African countries' voting behaviour in the United Nations: Evidence from the economic rise of China
研究非洲国家向中国出口自然资源如何影响其在联合国的投票立场，发现资源出口增加会提高与中国投票一致的概率，尤其在中美投票相反时效果更强。
Abstract We study the effect of African countries' resource exports to China on the countries' voting alignment with China in the United Nations. Our analysis exploits time variation in the swift surge in China's demand for natural resources and cross‐sectional variation in countries' propensity to export resources. We find that an increase in resource exports to China increases the probability of voting in line with China in the United Nations. Interestingly, we observe a stronger effect for resolutions on which China and the United States cast opposite votes. We provide suggestive evidence that public goods and state capacity are possible explanations for our main results.