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Insight and analysis of China’s evolving geo-economic strategy and policy across the globe and across sectors. We focus on China’s global footprint in the Belt and Road Initiative, the developmental impacts of its trade and investment, and its role in bilateral and multilateral finance. Looking forward, we seek to understand how China’s modernisation and superpower ambitions will shape its global role to come.

Rebecca Nadin on China's relationship with the Global South

Rebecca Nadin, Director of ODI’s Global Risks and Resilience (GRR) programme, was interviewed by Iain Martin on China’s relationship with the Global South as the CERGE-EI Foundation Price of War conference 2023.

Belt and Road Forum 2023

China and global development: What to read after the third Belt and Road Forum

Eight key resources on the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing, which marked 10 years of the initiative.
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Has China's Belt and Road Initiative been a success?

Ten years on, should the BRI be regarded as a success and what comes next? The FT's global China editor, James Kynge, spoke to our Research Fellow Yunnan Chen.

The Belt and Road Initiative

Rooted in China’s domestic economic and security woes, the BRI can have transformative impacts for participating countries, as well as risks.

China and the multilateral development banks

Economic Pulse series

China and sustainable development

China’s growing role in trade, investment and in development finance put it in a unique position to shape global development outcomes and the SDGs.

Global China 2049

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  1. Old wine in new bottles? China, the G7 and the new infrastructure geopolitics

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  2. Who should provide climate finance? Answering a hard question with some hard numbers

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  3. Risks along the Belt and Road: Chinese investment and infrastructure development priorities in Kyrgyzstan

    Research report

  4. Reflections on the Chinese Communist Party's 20th National Congress

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  5. China and global development: 9 things to read in October 2022

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  6. Russia’s recent ITU election loss is a major setback for China’s internet governance ambitions

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  7. The US is vying for more influence in the Pacific region – but what does this mean for Pacific Islands?

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  8. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit 2022: key takeaways

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  9. Migration for climate action: how labour mobility can help the green transition

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  10. Risks along the Belt and Road: Chinese investment and infrastructure development in Cambodia

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  11. What winter sports tell us about population ageing and development: lessons from China and Japan

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  12. Cooperation with European characteristics? Lessons from China for the EU–Africa summit

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  13. Blackout: understanding the internet shutdowns in Kazakhstan and Yemen

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  14. China to keep a watchful eye on Kazakhstan as political risk heightens

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  15. China and global development: 20 things to read in December

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  16. Changing tides for China-Africa cooperation: our key takeaways from the 8th FOCAC

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  17. China's role in the multilateral development banks

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  18. The evolution of China’s lending practices on the Belt and Road

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  19. China’s lending landscape and approach to debt relief

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  20. The deeper questions about China and the multilateral banks underneath the Doing Business controversy

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