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 …

China's main railway line linking east and west was speeded-up in Oct. 21, 2000, which improves freight efficiency … between eastern China and Xinjiang (the hub of China and Central Asia). This paper tests the impact of exogenous domestic …

nearby markets significantly promoted local growth in China since 1990. In particular, expansions of road infrastructure … potential measures. While we find that improved regional integration promoted local GDP growth in China, we find no significant …

The research question is to what extent the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) plan will be effective in helping China … implemented in 2013 as a response to the economic slowdown in China and was intended to help the country's transition to a slower …, but structurally more balanced "new normal" economic growth model. At the same time, China is facing many serious problems …