List of friendly nations – The Grading System

By China Watcher

If the US has the right to grade sovereign countries based on its own human rights standards and other copyright-compliant related activities, I think it is only fair that China should be allowed to set up its list of friendly nations.

For the statistical minded, I have actually designed a very simple point-based system to grade the countries in accordance to the following 12 criteria mentioned below:

Criteria	Excellent	Good	Satisfactorily	Not Satisfactory
Government Relations	8	6	4	2
People to People Relations	4	3	2	1
Lawmakers Relations	4	3	2	1
Trading activities based the nature of goods	8	6	4	2
Common societal values	8	6	4	2
Actions at the UN	4	3	2	1
Military cooperation	4	3	2	1
Trade Issues, legal cases at WTO	4	3	2	1
Regional Cooperation (Science & Technology)	4	3	2	1
Two-way Investments	4	3	2	1
No Territorial or historical arguments	4	3	2	1
Local Media support	4	2	2	1

Note: 1. Government relations, societal values, trading activities are given twice the weights due to its relative importance in a diplomatic relationship.

2. Points on the higher scale is favorable whereas at the lower end it is not so.

Maximum number of points = 60 (15 X 4)

Legend:

Types	Points	Remarks
Tier 1	Above 48	Countries which sincerely wanted to develop friendly ties with China. Excellent government ties. Provide all round support on issues relating to China.
Tier 2	35-48	Countries which have promoted good and stable ties with China but it also have values that are in conflict with China. Does not allow these differences to obstruct the development of business relations.
Tier 3	Below 35	Countries have sound and normal relations. Respectable trading partner but there are also outstanding trade issues with China. Willing to impose own values on other independent nations.

Take for example the US:

Criteria	Points
Government Relations	6
People to People Relations	2
Lawmakers Relations	1
Trading activities based on volume	6
Common social values	2
Actions at the UN	2
Military cooperation	2
Trade Issues, Legal Cases at WTO	2
Regional Cooperation (Science and Technology)	2
Two-way Investment	2
No Territorial or historical arguments	4
Local Media support	1
Total	32

Hence, US will be categorized as a Tier 3 friendly nation with regards to its relations with China.

Russia

Criteria	Points
Government Relations	8
People to People Relations	3
Lawmakers Relations	4
Trading activities based on volume	6
Common social values	6
Actions at the UN	4
Military cooperation	3
Trade Issues, Legal Cases at WTO	4
Regional Cooperation (Science and Technology)	3
Two-way Investment	3
No Territorial or historical arguments	3
Local Media support	3
Total	50

Russia will be graded as Tier 1 friendly nation to China.

France

Criteria	Excellent
Government Relations	6
People to People Relations	2
Lawmakers Relations	1
Trading activities based on volume	6
Common societal values	2
Actions at the UN	1
Military cooperation	1
Trade Issues, Legal Cases at WTO	2
Regional Cooperation (Science and Technology)	2
Two-way Investment	2
No Territorial or historical arguments	4
Local Media support	1
Total	30

France will be graded as Tier 3 under list of friendly nations to China.

Australia

Criteria	Excellent
Government Relations	6
People to People Relations	3
Lawmakers Relations	2
Trading activities based on volume	8
Common societal values	4
Actions at the UN	2
Military cooperation	2
Trade Issues, Legal Cases at WTO	3
Regional Cooperation (Science and Technology)	2
Two-way Investment	3
No Territorial or historical arguments	4
Local Media support	2
Total	41

Australia will be graded as Tier 2 under list of friendly nations to China.

I would continue to add more countries on the left side of the blog page.

Please provide me with feedbacks, so that I can further improve the grading system.

Thanks for reading.