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 …

of FDI from the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea to various regions of China from 1990 to 2002. We …