). Since Beijing launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, 3/4 of countries in the world have engaged with China …'s arrangement of promoting global physical and digital connectivity. This still leaves a quarter of them that have refused China … rivalry have spoiled the appetite of European countries to intensify their ties with China, many developing countries seem to …

This paper first compares Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) trends between China and Latin America - the main … investors among developing economies today. We discover that although China and Latin American countries have different … countries' OFDI focus primarily on resource or resource-based industries, China invests heavily - but not predominately - in …