How China’s power companies invest overseas
China’s power infrastructure investment comes in multiple forms, all of which entail different risks
Empty trains on the modern Silk Road: when Belt and Road interests don’t align
China’s provinces are sending empty freight trains to Europe. Chinese media explains why.
“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
Assessing China’s most comprehensive response to the “debt trap”: the Belt and Road ‘Debt Sustainability Framework’
Ma Xinyue argues that debt financing along the Belt and Road is as much a “trap” for debtors as it is for China
The Cambodia Conundrum: The Belt and Road, private capital and China’s “non-interference” policy
How are China’s private companies shaping the contour of the Belt and Road Initiative? Cambodia provides an important example.
Following China’s footsteps from Andes to Amazon: advice from a Colombian journalist
Andres Bermudez Lievano, who has covered China for a Latin American audience from Beijing and Bogota, shares his views about how China reporting in the region can improve
Special Monthly Round-up: BRI 1.5
The 2nd Belt and Road Forum in Beijing ended with a set of software patches to BRI 1.0
The myth of the Belt and Road in Central and Eastern Europe
Analysis of media and parliamentary discourse shows that the BRI has hardly made a dent in Central and Eastern European perceptions of Chinese influence
The Politics of Vexed Capital: China’s Railway Projects in Southeast Asia
Alvin Camba develops a conceptual model to explain why certain Chinese overseas projects progress while others get stalled
Lessons from my three years engaging with China’s hydropower giants
A first-person account of how China’s hydropower giants engage with civil society groups when operating overseas