Drawing on a global database of media articles, we quantitatively assess perceptions of China’s Belt and Road …

China has gone from being a supporter of fringe Maoist regimes in the 1960s to providing more financial assistance to … the region than the World Bank (Cheng, 2015). But the idea that China would be crucial to African development is neither … new nor accidental. In fact, Chinese policymakers have been aware of this notion for quite some time. China's Ya …

China’s grand infrastructure development strategy, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has suffered as a result of the … COVID-19 pandemic, at least when measured by the amount of funds lent or invested by China in BRI projects. This decrease in … funding is one of the most visible signs of China’s increasing isolationism and worsening global image …

This paper makes a mid-term assessment for China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from the perspective of trade …, investment and financial perspectives, respectively. Trade is most accessible field for China to breakthrough as it can be … Russia constitute the largest trade share with China. Our analysis on the BRI's spillover effect on the US and the EU reveals …

After more than seven years of negotiations, the European Union (EU) and China reached a deal for their Comprehensive … Agreement on Investment to go forward at the end of 2020. Such deal is important politically both for the EU and China. The EU … severaly damaged the Transatlantic alliance. For China, it offered a clear signal to the US that it would not succeed in …