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Author Archives: Tom Baxter

The winners and losers of the Belt and Road Initiative: from their own perspectives

Belt and Road Through My Village is a new book that listens to the perspectives of those most affected by BRI mega projects

2020年11月30日 in Book reviews.
landscape photography of brown wooden house on forest near river

Who gets to be green on the BRI and on whose terms?

An interview with Tyler Harlan on the politics of “greenness” of the Belt and Road Initiative

2020年11月23日 in Governance.

Charting the Belt and Road decision making machine

Understanding who makes what decisions in the Belt and Road Initiative, an interview with Dr Thomas Hale

2020年9月21日 in Governance.

Incorporating gender into Chinese hydropower development in the Mekong region

Dr Pichamon Yeophantong shares her observations about how Chinese infrastructure companies approach gender in project development

2020年8月14日 in Energy investment, Southeast Asia.

The puzzle of China’s missing solar and wind finance along the Belt and Road (Part 1)

New paper sheds light on reasons behind the lack of renewable energy lending from China’s policy banks

2020年4月19日 in Energy investment.

Looking at the Belt and Road through the lens of Marxist geography

The Belt and Road is driven by a capitalist logic recognizable to any large economy

2020年2月28日 in Overseas finance.

Dreams and Infrastructure – Common Destiny, the first Belt and Road movie

A BRI-themed documentary movie manifests China’s infrastructure-centric concept of development

2019年11月13日 in Book reviews.

“Opaque, huge, ill defined, politicized”: Beijing’s foreign press corp grapples with BRI

Beijing foreign correspondents talk about the challenges of reporting the Belt and Road

2019年8月7日 in BRI in media.

Rising China in the eyes of its closest neighbors

What a collection of ethnographic studies about “neighboring China” can tell us about the Belt and Road

2019年1月14日 in Book reviews, Southeast Asia.

Zooming In, Zooming Out: the frames through which Western media see Belt and Road

An awareness of the narrative frames used by Western media to portray BRI can lead to better reporting

2018年7月27日 in BRI in media.

Topics

  • Africa (7)
  • Biodiversity (1)
  • Book reviews (3)
  • BRI in media (15)
  • Editor's note (4)
  • Energy investment (10)
  • Foreign aid (4)
  • Governance (3)
  • Latin America (2)
  • Overseas finance (14)
  • Southeast Asia (10)

About us

This blog is started by those who aspire to tell a better story about China’s involvement beyond its borders. We are journalists, campaigners, analysts, scholars and practitioners with years of experience navigating Chinese politics, bureaucracy, finance and their ramifications overseas.

The Team

  • Ma Tianjie
    Founder/Editor
    Ma Tianjie
  • Calvin Quek
    Editor
    Calvin Quek
  • Tom Baxter
    Editor
    Tom Baxter
Ma Tianjie

Ma Tianjie

Founder/Editor

Ma Tianjie has been involved in policy analysis and environmental advocacy in China for over a decade. He also runs Chublic Opinion, a popular Chinese public opinion blog. He was an English major at Peking University and later earned his Master’s degree in environmental policy from American University. His areas of interest include China’s overseas footprint, environmental governance and online public opinion.

Calvin Quek

Calvin Quek

Editor

Calvin is a Visiting Fellow at the Tsinghua University Finance and Development Center, focusing on green finance development in developing countries. He is also head of Greenpeace East Asia’s Sustainable Finance Program and leads its engagement of the financial community. In the past, Calvin served on the Board of the China Carbon Forum, and was the first Executive Director of the Beijing Energy Network. Prior to coming to China, Calvin worked at Citigroup for close to a decade. Calvin has an MBA from Peking University, and an MSc in Wealth Management from Singapore Management University.

Tom Baxter

Editor

Tom Baxter works on climate and energy issues and Chinese overseas investments at China Dialogue. He works in the intersections between journalism and the NGO world and his writing has previously appeared in The Economist, South China Morning Post, China Dialogue, and elsewhere. Tom studied history at the University of Glasgow and Hong Kong University. His interests include China’s increasing global influence and the role of the media as an agent in public debate. He also maintains a keen interest in literature and the Chinese language.

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