Despite an exhaustive body of empirical research that disproves the existence of Chinese “debt-trap” diplomacy, it continues to have salience among US
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China’s Digital Silk Road Taking Its Shot at the Global Stage
The rise of China has strengthened its resolve to challenge global markets and the United States’ technological hegemony. China has developed into the
How China’s Policy Banks Shape Its Hardball Approach to Sovereign Debtors
The fiscal after-effects of the pandemic have combined with global interest rate rises to create a new developing-world debt crisis — one where
Growth of Autocracies Will Expand Chinese Global Influence via Belt and Road Initiative as It Enters Second Decade
Richard Carney, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen China currently faces daunting challenges in its domestic economy. But weakness in the
What Do People in the Pacific Really Think of China? It’s More Nuanced Than You May Imagine
Denghua Zhang, Australian National University and Bernard Yegiora, Divine Word University China has been steadily increasing its footprint in the
Putin and Xi: Beijing Belt and Road Meeting Highlighted Russia’s Role as China’s Junior Partner
Marcin Kaczmarski, University of Glasgow and Natasha Kuhrt, King's College London The third Belt and Road Forum held in Beijing recently attracted
At Ten Years of Age, China’s Belt and Road Hits the Crossroads. Hard
World leader attendance at the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) third international forum is down over 30 percent on its second forum in 2019. As
Xi-Putin Meeting: Here’s What It Says About Their Current, and Future, Relationship
Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham Vladimir Putin is expected to travel outside the borders of the former Soviet Union for the first time in 20
Beijing Anger-ometer, October 2023: A Knife to Hegemony
Brushed off from spending the tens of billions of dollars that it borrows from China on infrastructure it would actually like to build, Pakistan saw
How China’s Investment in the Pan Amazon Operates
The increasing presence of Chinese companies in South America has become an issue of concern among social and political analysts. Security specialists
Forget the South China Sea. ‘Goodwill’ and Self-Interest Will Sell the Philippines to China
Step into Manila’s Binondo district from the south, and its culture is so rich and fascinating you must enter it twice. Passing under one gate, you
Five Things That the West Doesn’t Understand About China’s Foreign Policy
Tom Harper, University of East London China’s capacity to surprise Western politicians was demonstrated recently, when Chinese leader Xi Jinping