panel difference-in-differences estimations and an event study design. Motivated by the claim that China and Russia … purposefully undermine US sanction efforts, we test whether target countries' trade with China and Russia increases under US trade … countries. Trade of targets of US sanctions with China declines even more than trade with the US. These general patterns are …

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 …