Tracking the environmental and human rights costs behind transition minerals
While Chinese companies seek to occupy more dominant positions in the global supply chain of critical minerals, they should first confront a glaring governance gap
Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park: how industrial policy reshapes Chinese investment and corporate alliances
Host country elites are using BRI investments as leverage to advance industrial policy goals, creating winners and losers along the way.
Easy Money and Political Opportunism: How China and Japan’s High-Speed Rail Competition in Indonesia drives financially risky projects
Asia’s infrastructure needs are real. But creditor competition can motivate political opportunism rather than sound policy choices, argues Jessica Liao.
Supply and demand: understanding Chinese involvement in coal projects overseas
China is shifting away from coal domestically but building many coal power plants overseas, why?