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 …

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

Asian countries are: Russia, China, United States, European countries, Iran, India and Turkey. Among these players, Russia … Asian country and external players, starting from the closest countries (Russia and China) to the regional ones (Iran …

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 …

protectionism) and tertiary (ie global power competition with China) objectives. The initial negotiation proposal submitted by the …

regional energy map and rapidly making the Eastern Mediterranean a world-class natural gas province. These geopolitical and … Mediterranean Energy Corridor. -- Eastern Mediterranean ; natural gas ; energy geopolitics ; Turkey ; Israel ; Egypt ; Cyprus …

This research provides a grasp of China's energy needs and their implications for SSA countries in order to give a … balanced and better understanding of its role on the continent. More specifically, the aim is to understand why and how China …

(KRI) and in offshore Israel, while on the demand side the unprecedented political standoff between the Western world and …