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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

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

  1. How to better equip the U.S. DFC to compete with China

    Insight

  2. Levelling the playing field: OECD responses to China’s overseas finance

    Insight

  3. How China hedges: deciphering Sinosure’s role in China’s overseas finance

    Insight

  4. Can ‘the West’ be trusted? The future of European humanitarian aid

    Expert Comment

  5. China and global development: what to read in February 2024

    Expert Comment

  6. Challenges and considerations: a realistic look at the Middle Corridor’s potential

    Expert Comment

  7. China and global development: what to read in December 2023

    Expert Comment

  8. Hedging belts, de-risking roads: Sinosure in China’s overseas finance and the evolving international response

    Research reports

  9. Five takeaways from the Global Gateway Forum

    Expert Comment

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

    Expert Comment

  11. Renminbi on the road

    Expert Comment

  12. The critical minerals race to net zero

    Event

  13. Looking back, looking forward: Global South perspectives on the BRI

    Event

  14. China and global development: eight things to read in August 2023

    Expert Comment

  15. China and global development: six recommended readings and podcasts for June 2023

    Expert Comment

  16. Think Change episode 25: Africa-China – where is the relationship heading?

    Podcast

  17. China and global development: 11 things to read in April 2023

    Expert Comment

  18. Think Change episode 22: On borrowed time? The sovereign debt crisis in the Global South

    Podcast

  19. China and global development: 12 things to read and listen to in December 2022

    Expert Comment

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

    Expert Comment