Tag: Global China Initiative

Chart of the Week: Drop in Fossil Fuel Investments Drives Decline of China’s Overseas Energy Sector Development Finance

By Xinyue Ma While the early growth of China’s overseas development finance in the energy sector had been bolster by fossil fuel investments, the Global Development Policy Center’s China’s Global Energy Finance Database shows that its recent decline is likewise driven by a stepwise decrease of fossil fuel investment, especially in oil and gas. This […]

Financing Ethiopia’s Railways with China and Turkey

By Yunnan Chen Following the impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the role of debt finance—and China’s particular role in becoming the largest bilateral creditor to the developing world—has come to the fore as many developing countries, particularly in Africa, face crises on multiple fronts. Indeed, governments must now navigate an economic recession, a debt […]