BRI Notebook: Exim Bank executive shares valuable first-hand experience
Zhao Liang’s blogpost about how he oversaw the soft loan to Nepal to build the Pokhara Airport offers insight into the Chinese lending process
Interview: Working with Chinese companies on land acquisition and involuntary resettlement for project development
Dr. Luke Long explains how resettlement is done in international development projects and why apply higher standards will ultimately pay off
BRI Notebook: “Racism for Sale”
With economic ties ever growing between China and Africa, new business opportunities are emerging. The pressing question is: what kind of ethical guardrails do you put around such new businesses?
Governance, debt and war: reassessing Chinese aid in the Western Balkans
Ana Krstinovska shares her critical take on Chinese development assistance in the region in the wake of the post-pandemic economic situation and the war in Ukraine.
Agriculture for food plus agriculture for wealth: China-Africa agriculture cooperation in new cycles
2022 marks the beginning of the three-year China-Africa Cooperation cycle and China’s five-year plan cycle for International Agriculture Cooperation. What do they mean for China’s agricultural aid and investment in the African continent?
China and Africa’s post-Covid partnership: key takeaways from FOCAC8
With FOCAC8 concluded in Senegal, the two sides have co-written a new chapter in an evolving relationship
The Afghan crisis through the prism of Chinese media
In this special issue of our newsletter, we look at how Chinese media and society is trying to make sense of the bewildering situation in Afghanistan
Roundtable: Will the G7’s B3W Initiative change the game of global infrastructure development?
We surveyed our network of contributors on whether the G7’s counter-offer to the BRI represents anything new
Belt and Road Initiative in the 14th Five Year Plan: an explainer
Where does the BRI sit in China’s blueprint for social and economic development for the next 5 years?
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