The Belt and Road initiative, recently embarked on by China, aims to improve cross-border infrastructure in order to … reduce transportation costs across a massive geographical area between China and Europe. The authors estimate how much trade … true for eastern Europe and Central Asia and, to a lesser extent, south-east Asia. In contrast, if China were to seek to …

substitutes for EU exports on the Russian market. This means that an increase in China-Russia economic cooperation should have a … negative impact on European exports. The authors simulate a scenario in which trade tariffs between Russia and China are … sectors in Europe will be more affected by the increasing economic links between China and Russia, and finds that electronic …

With the trade conflict between the United States and China bringing China-US strategic competition into the open, the …-led trade war against China and its immediate consequences for China, the US and the EU. Although protectionism can never be … growth enhancing, European companies could see gains if the trade confrontation between China and the US ends up reducing …

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

China's economic ties with Russia are deepening, particularly in terms of trade and cross-border lending, but less so …'s largest trading partner, lender and investor. In relation to trade, an analysis of China's increasing export share and the … increasing value added of its exports, and previous empirical analysis at the product level, indicate that China seems to have …

Drawing on global media reports, we conduct a sentiment analysis of the image of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI … positive, even if slightly less so than in the past. This is notwithstanding increases in debt levels with China, much of which … sentiment towards China's landmark project, as well as a much worse image of the initiative in countries which, until today, are …

down on research and development (R&D) spending and STEM-oriented human capital. In this paper, we assess China's progress … research and patents. We then evaluate how China has fared with respect to the ultimate goal of commercialising this progress … bottlenecks that might be hindering the translation of China's innovation efforts into productivity growth. …