Moving away from an isolationist perspective, Chinese participation in UN Peace Operations has been increasingly flexible when it comes to the assertiveness of its interventionist character. Literature on the theme suggests uneasy relations between China’s ‘responsible power’ stance and its continued participation in current peace operations, characterized by the militarisation of tasks and the neutralisation of illegal armed groups. Furthermore, China has a historically critical posture against the content and application of liberal norms underpinning UN Peace Operations, despite actively contributing to their efforts. This chapter investigates the distinctly Chinese approach towards development and the characteristics of the country’s participation in UN Peace operations, taking the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) as a case study. We argue that China’s alternative understanding of development promotes a type of engagement in UN missions and of relationship with host states that differs from that of the West, and which we call ‘State-Strings Attached Relationship’. This form of relationship is characterised by the importance of local governments’ consent, political interference without intervention, and lack of coerciveness regarding domestic political-economic liberal goals, such as representative democracy building and open market policies. Nevertheless, like other areas in international affairs such as finance and the economy, China has reached a tipping point in its reformative effort, limiting its transformative capacity. The first section of the chapter discusses China’s approach to development and its reformist background. The second section looks into the historical transition of China’s profile in UN Peace Operations, from a rigidly non-interventionist character to one based on the country’s understanding of interference. Finally, the last section analyses UNMISS as representative of China’s main current engagement, based on geopolitical interests and diplomatic ties with South Sudan. We conclude that the Chinese State-Strings Attached Relationship, as presented in the UNMISS case, differs from Western conceptions of aid with strings attached for democratisation and liberalisation, as China sees the triad between state security, stability and development to be a necessary condition for the fulfilment of socio-economic human rights.