China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR), the maritime component of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is reshaping global geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics. Comparative case studies of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Malaysia, Djibouti, and Cambodia, illustrate how China employs dual-use infrastructure, elite capture, and asymmetric debt vulnerabilities to achieve its...
China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR), the maritime component of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is reshaping global geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics. Comparative case studies of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Malaysia, Djibouti, and Cambodia, illustrate how China employs dual-use infrastructure, elite capture, and asymmetric debt vulnerabilities to achieve its...
The Belt and Road Initiative is a foundational framework that provides a practical platform and institutional support for implementing the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping: the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative.
The BRI framework translates these...
The Belt and Road Initiative is a foundational framework that provides a practical platform and institutional support for implementing the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping: the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative.
The BRI framework translates these...
Many observers and researchers of China are already familiar with China’s industrialization after reform and opening in 1978. They know how China became the world’s manufacturing center through township and village enterprises, foreign investment, export processing, coastal opening, WTO accession, industrial clusters, and global supply chains.
Yet many people still treat...
Many observers and researchers of China are already familiar with China’s industrialization after reform and opening in 1978. They know how China became the world’s manufacturing center through township and village enterprises, foreign investment, export processing, coastal opening, WTO accession, industrial clusters, and global supply chains.
Yet many people still treat...
Today, as a more equitable multipolar world order takes shape, the multifaceted partnership between Russia and China – two great powers and largest neighbours – stands as a model for interstate engagement founded on equality, a balance of interests, and mutual advantage.
The groundwork for our cooperation was laid at the...
Today, as a more equitable multipolar world order takes shape, the multifaceted partnership between Russia and China – two great powers and largest neighbours – stands as a model for interstate engagement founded on equality, a balance of interests, and mutual advantage.
The groundwork for our cooperation was laid at the...
Visibility into China’s international economic activity has declined. One cause is Chinese firms are becoming less transparent, with their websites more frequently inaccessible outside China and information about their operations deliberately limited, even at home. There’s also a research problem. Scraping the internet is a common and poor approach. Doing...
Visibility into China’s international economic activity has declined. One cause is Chinese firms are becoming less transparent, with their websites more frequently inaccessible outside China and information about their operations deliberately limited, even at home. There’s also a research problem. Scraping the internet is a common and poor approach. Doing...
