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
Monthly Round-up: The Summit
What we know about the second Belt and Road Summit in April 2019?
Interview: What’s missing in the conversation about China’s expanding global presence?
Longtime Belt and Road observer Zhang Hong shares her insights about the historical evolution of China’s “Going Out”
Development blogging: understanding social media support for BRI
What a new genre in Chinese social media tells us about how the Belt and Road Initiative is perceived domestically
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
December round-up: Reform, Opening, Belt and Road
As China celebrates 40 years of reform and opening up, the BRI needs to find its own place in and beyond Deng Xiaoping’s legacy
Belt and Road insiders: What we think about “greening” the initiative
Interviews with banks and SOE executives shed light on what motivates Chinese players to (not) go green in BRI projects.
What China’s new foreign aid rules can and cannot do
CIDCA’s proposed Measures open a new window into Chinese foreign aid, but stakeholders should manage their expectations
November monthly round-up: caught in the crossfire
As US-China tension increases over the BRI, third-party actors find themselves caught in the crossfire.