By Akanksha Goyal and Angie Ye The 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) will be held in Beijing from September 4-6, 2024, with African leaders and members of FOCAC scheduled to attend. Since the inception of the FOCAC in 2000 and the China-Africa Development Fund in 2006, China’s economic ties with Africa […]
By Liaoguo Chen China’s overseas development finance has increased significantly over the last two decades, making China the largest bilateral official creditor in the world. The launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013 has brought China’s overseas investment and financing to the next level in global expansion. However, the BRI has also […]
By Min Ye In 2023, China will mark the tenth anniversary of its flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the billion-dollar push to fund roads, ports and other critical infrastructure around the world. Ahead of this anniversary, it is important to pause and reflect on the significance and trends of China’s international finance on the […]
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in late 2013 has been the most studied Chinese policy in recent years and has been portrayed variously by different observers worldwide, as China’s great-power strategy, global infrastructure initiative or commercial projects. But how can one initiative be shown to have such varied […]
Rarely has a non-US policy program generated as much controversy as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Five years later, the BRI is by far the most watched foreign policy initiative that China has projected on the world stage, yet its roots and effects have been and will be continuously shaped by China’s internal political […]
Since the Chinese government announced the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, China has solidified its status as a leader in the international community. Through its financing of development projects, mostly through South-South cooperation, BRI has attracted considerable scrutiny. This attention comes from both developed and developing countries and focuses on how the Chinese […]