The Belt and Road initiative, recently embarked on by China, aims to improve cross-border infrastructure in order to … reduce transportation costs across a massive geographical area between China and Europe. The authors estimate how much trade … true for eastern Europe and Central Asia and, to a lesser extent, south-east Asia. In contrast, if China were to seek to …

China's outbound investment exceeded inbound investment for the first time in 2015. In years leading up this transition … investment, all had a role in China's diminished competitiveness in low‐wage manufactured exports and the fading of the related … China, and in doing so also seeks to instigate new era development opportunity for other developing countries. One …

Has the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched by China in 2013, changed the perception of China among local actors … of relations between the Central Asian countries and China and collects and systematizes perceptions of Beijing and BRI …, as they as they are among BRI's main pillars. The main conclusion is that current attitudes towards China have been …

There are ongoing academic and public debates on the nature of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). While some … hegemonic aspirations. Is the BRI about development or geopolitics? This article adopts a political economy approach to bridge … problems of capital accumulation under China's export-oriented growth model indicates a particular form of spatial fix via the …

Drawing on a global database of media articles, we quantitatively assess perceptions of China's Belt and Road …