We assess the impact of China's bilateral political relations with three main trading partners-the US, Germany, and the … approach with time-varying Granger causality tests, we find that political relationships with China strongly matter in …

China during 2020. We find that a country's own Covid-19 deaths and lockdowns significantly reduced its imports from China …-19 deaths in the main trading partners of a country (excluding China) induces more imports from China, partially … are evaluated at their 2020 mean is, on average, a reduction of nearly 10% in imports from China. There is also …

affected by disputes with China, and is different from the diffusion behaviours of the offshore US dollar, euro, British pound …

panel difference-in-differences estimations and an event study design. Motivated by the claim that China and Russia … purposefully undermine US sanction efforts, we test whether target countries' trade with China and Russia increases under US trade … countries. Trade of targets of US sanctions with China declines even more than trade with the US. These general patterns are …

In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy …