China's programme for inter-regional economic connectivity, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), will develop new trade … the shift of the US rhetoric since 2017, characterising China as a strategic competitor. Conventional geopolitical … benefits to China and costs to others, yet there is a significant research gap in empirical case studies of what is actually …

Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central … Asia as the most-likely case, considering both Russia and China as relevant external actors. We develop a concept for our … analysis based on the different strategies of Russia (dominance) and China (doing-business) towards the region and present the …