game plan -- The United States: coercion to win -- China: the long game -- Red flags? Russia's construction of oblique …

). 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 …

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 … sanctions. We find no evidence for systematic sanction busting. Russia does not change its trade patterns with sanctioned …