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China

What we cover

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. China in the multilateral development banks: evolving strategies of a new power

    Research report

  2. The Belt and Road and Chinese enterprises in Ethiopia: risks and opportunities for development

    Research report

  3. China’s investment in digital infrastructure along the Belt and Road

    Emerging analysis

  4. China and global development: 10 things to read in July 2021

    Expert comment

  5. Driving a green recovery in developing countries: what role is China playing?

    Research report

  6. Pulse 3 – recover, reform,  restructure: China’s outward investment appetite and implications for developing countries

    Research report

  7. China and global development: seven things to read in May 2021

    Expert comment

  8. Understanding and mitigating social risks to sustainable development in China’s BRI: evidence from Nepal and Zambia

    Research report

  9. China and global development: eight things to read in March 2021

    Expert comment

  10. Economic Pulse 2: China navigates its Covid-19 recovery – outward investment appetite and implications for developing countries

    Research report

  11. Economic Pulse 1: Covid-19 and economic crisis – China’s recovery and international response

    Research report

  12. Africa’s economic transformation: the role of Chinese investment

    Research report

  13. Chinese firms and employment dynamics in Angola and Ethiopia

    Briefing/policy paper

  14. Practical science for uncertain futures: using scenarios to improve resilience to earthquakes

    Working paper

  15. Financing the future of the Belt and Road in Africa

    Event

  16. Donors in transition and the future of development cooperation: what do the data from Brazil, India, China and South Africa reveal?

    Working paper

  17. Creating an earthquake scenario in China: a case study in Weinan City, Shaanxi province

    Other

  18. G20 coal subsidies: China

    Research report

  19. G20 support to coal power plants increases by more than double – new report

    Global ~ China ~ India ~ Japan ~ Climate change ~ Climate finance ~ Energy

    Press Release

  20. Homecoming: a story about how a strong earthquake affects a family with ‘left-behind’ children

    Toolkit/guideline