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 …

China has virtually dominated the trade scene in nearly all manufacturing sectors, this study also looks at the tripartite … dynamics of trade in pharmaceutical items among India, Pakistan and China. An analysis of the China-Pakistan and the South Asia … Free Trade Area Agreements reveals that while Pakistan does not give any favourable treatment to China in items on Pakistan …

The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals … manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely one of the key determinants of better economic performance of China …. Still, China’s integration process so far remains characterized by a certain duality. On the one hand the opening up of …

China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 was hailed as the natural conclusion of a long march that … started with the reforms of Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s. However, China's participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth … approaches have been proposed to deal with the emerging problems. One is to demand that China changes its economic regime. The …

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 …