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?
Europe’s Global Gateway: To Where?
EU initiative needs a strong narrative if it is to compete with BRI’s influence
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
“No new coal power abroad”: What has Xi’s announcement changed?
President Xi Jinping’s new pledge not only puts the fate of many coal power plants on the line, but also changes the long standing narrative of the BRI
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
Dreams and Infrastructure – Common Destiny, the first Belt and Road movie
A BRI-themed documentary movie manifests China’s infrastructure-centric concept of development
“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
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
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
Monthly Round-up: The Summit
What we know about the second Belt and Road Summit in April 2019?