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 …

The Belt Road Initiative (BRI) suggested by China’s President Xi Jinping provides an ambitious vision encouraging a new … enormous differences among the economies involved, as well as the 6 BRI corridors studied – namely, Bangladesh-China …-India-Myanmar (BCIM), China-Mongolia-Russia (CMR), China-Central Asia-West Asia (CAWA), China-Indochina Peninsula (ICP), China …

intercontinental railways on the trade between China and its trading partners in Central Asia and Europe? We focus on nine railway … lines connecting Europe and China, which started operations between 2011 and 2015. The countries ́trade patterns with … railway connections to China are then compared to the countries without railway connections to China. We find the …

Drawing on global media reports, we conduct a sentiment analysis of the image of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI … positive, even if slightly less so than in the past. This is notwithstanding increases in debt levels with China, much of which … sentiment towards China's landmark project, as well as a much worse image of the initiative in countries which, until today, are …

The so-called Belt & Road initiative of China is the largest and most comprehensive global economic activity of our …

regional initiative based on China-Central Asia relations. The last section discusses the perspective of the BR in Central Asia …

In 2013 China launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), including in Indonesia a “Twenty-first Century Maritime Silk … Eastern focus for which there has been no official explanation, leaving room for uncertainty and speculation around China … three angles from which China’s early BRI focus on Eastern Africa may be understood: 1) economic, 2) demographic and 3 …

its implications on EU-China relations, with emphasis on trade imbalances and the consolidation of global value chains … people, and scholars from China, Germany, and Spain. …