China's Bilateral Swap Agreements and Global Foreign Policy Alignment

Country-level foreign policy alignment scores and Bilateral Swap Agreement (BSA) records comprise this dataset by Qi Liu, published via Harvard Dataverse in 2026. It utilizes a Bayesian generalized synthetic control approach to analyze how Chinese credit lines influence the diplomatic positioning of financially vulnerable nations.

Use Cases

• Estimating short-run foreign-policy alignment shifts following the signing of a Chinese BSA
• Comparing causal effects of financial credit lines between financially vulnerable and stable countries
• Applying Bayesian generalized synthetic control methods to international relations data

Strengths

• Includes country-level causal effect estimates for BSA participation
• Categorizes countries by financial vulnerability and support for Chinese leadership
• Facilitates replication of Bayesian generalized synthetic control findings

Limitations

• Specific row counts and column headers are not provided in the source metadata
• The exact temporal range of the observations is not explicitly defined

Provenance

Source

Qi Liu, Harvard Dataverse

Freshness

Updated as of February 2026

Geography

Global