China’s flagship infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is known for being greenhouse gas intensive due to its historically large investments in fossil fuels. Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced in September 2021 that China would stop supporting the buildout of coal-fired power plants overseas, while likewise promising to scale up support for clean […]
By Christina Duran In September 2022, Argentina applied for membership in the BRICS group of nations (named for its original five members of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). It will become the third Latin American member, after Brazil and Uruguay, which joined in 2021. This news comes as Latin American and Caribbean countries […]
In the first decade of the 21st century, China’s rapid urbanization and investment-led growth model brought skyrocketing demand for raw commodities and an ensuing investment wave in Amazon basin countries. In the wake of this “China boom,” national governments in Amazon basin countries enacted a series of social and environmental protections, many of which were […]
In the next few years, demand for seafood is expected to grow exponentially and the gap between local demand and local production is expected to more than double within the next decade. As the world’s largest home of aquaculture (raising aquatic plants and animals for food), China has been responsible for over half of global […]
By Min Ye In 2023, China will mark the tenth anniversary of its flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the billion-dollar push to fund roads, ports and other critical infrastructure around the world. Ahead of this anniversary, it is important to pause and reflect on the significance and trends of China’s international finance on the […]
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in late 2013 has been the most studied Chinese policy in recent years and has been portrayed variously by different observers worldwide, as China’s great-power strategy, global infrastructure initiative or commercial projects. But how can one initiative be shown to have such varied […]
By James Sundquist The “Rise of China” is one of the great stories of this century. But how is this story told? Is the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) about South-South cooperation or debt-trap diplomacy? How much attention should be paid to China’s economic miracle and how much to its human rights violations? A new […]
The Chinese government cares deeply about its international image, with Chinese leader Xi Jinping calling for his government to charm the world by telling Chinese stories well. While existing research has studied Chinese efforts to earn status from foreign governments and direct public diplomacy toward foreign publics, it has largely overlooked the country’s preoccupation with […]
By Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses On July 6, 2022, the World Resources Institute (WRI) released an updated version of the China Overseas Finance Inventory (COFI) Database, which tracks Chinese-financed power generation projects in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries. The COFI Database draws from the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center’s suite of five interactive […]
Economic cooperation between Indonesia and China has intensified over the last decade through the emergence of a shared vision for economic prosperity. Inbound investment from China (including Hong Kong) to Indonesia has grown dramatically in recent years, particularly after the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was launched. Chinese investment in Indonesia is unique from other […]