China’s lending boom to developing countries is morphing into defaults and debt distress. Given the secrecy surrounding … China’s loans, also the associated defaults remain “hidden”, as missed payments and restructuring details are not disclosed …

With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it …

immigrants from other African countries and from other parts of the world, such as China. Given high poverty levels and weak … economic concerns. Furthermore, immigrants from China are perceived less positively and economically more threatening than …

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, China's mask and vaccine diplomacy have been widely discussed, but the … debate relies on a few stylized data points. This article introduces a systematic way to measure China's foreign aid in … almost real-time through official customs records of exported aid goods. Our results show significant shifts in China's aid …

of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, the results pointed towards large spillovers from the shutdown in China to … related to the shift of preferences towards goods with a large China valued-added content played a relevant role …. Interestingly, the impact of Chinese supply chain shocks is not limited to manufacturing sectors that are highly exposed to China …

This paper shows that China has launched a new global system for cross-border rescue lending to countries in debt … distress. We build the first comprehensive dataset on China’s overseas bailouts between 2000 and 2021 and provide new insights … into China’s growing role in the global financial system. A key finding is that the global swap line network put in place …