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1	Going Out: Successes and Failures of Chinese State-owned Enterprises in Foreign Markets Gulliver, Ian AH 01 January 2014 (has links) China’s State-owned Enterprises are important actors in China’s foreign policy arsenal. In the last decade, these massive companies began an international expansion unlike anything seen before on Earth. Going into developing nations, these companies undertake massive infrastructure and development projects in countries that most western nations have written off. This paper examines the success and failure of SOEs when they go abroad employing three case studies from the past decade, the Mes Aynak copper mine in Afghanistan, the Sicomines infrastructure and copper project in the Congo, and the COVEC highway project in Poland. The projects are then analyzed to determine the strengths and weaknesses of SOEs and comments on whether or not they are successful tools of diplomacy in our contemporary globalized world. Sicomines Mes Aynak COVEC State-owned Enterprises African Studies American Politics Asian Studies Eastern European Studies Growth and Development International Business International Economics International Relations Taxation