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Blog Posts
Kenya’s switch to Chinese RMB denominated-debt was a restructuring in disguise
Three powers, three playbooks: U.S., Japanese, and Chinese official financing in Southeast Asia over a quarter-century
China’s $24 billion in ports financing encircles the globe, reaching 90 countries
New dataset, profiles track China’s critical minerals investments across the globe
How China’s oil-backed lending in Venezuela fell into distress—and what might come next
China’s divorce from Venezuela wasn’t caused by the US. It already happened a decade ago.
China’s massive overseas lending portfolio shifts course, as Beijing eyes the U.S., EU, and sensitive industries
New in-depth profiles on China’s grants and loans to 20 countries
Out of public sight, China’s state-backed lenders secure priority repayment from emerging economies with cash collateral
China’s expanding investments in Indonesia force both to balance risk and reward
Competition continues between China and Taiwan for Latin American allies
How China is financing its domestic shipbuilding and vessel acquisition industry
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Publications
Power Playbook: Beijing’s Bid to Secure Overseas Transition Minerals
Exporting the Tools of Dictatorship: The Politics of China’s Technology Transfers
Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low- and middle-income countries
A Comparative Study of Traditional Donors and Non-traditional Donors in Sri Lanka
Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Investing in Narratives: How Beijing promotes its development projects in the Philippines
China’s hidden role in malaria control and elimination in Africa
Does India Use Development Finance to Compete With China? A Subnational Analysis
AidData’s Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset
Beijing’s Big Bet on the Philippines: Decoding two decades of China’s financing for development
China’s AI Exports: Developing a Tool to Track Chinese Development Finance in the Global South—Technical Documentation
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Datasets
AidData's Chinese-Financed Ports Overseas and Related Terminals (CPORTS) Dataset, Version 2.0, 2000-2025
AidData's Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals Dataset, Version 2.0
China's Loans and Grants to High-Income Countries Dataset, Version 1.0
China's Loans and Grants to Low- and Middle-Income Countries Dataset, Version 1.0
China's Global Loans and Grants Dataset, Version 1.0
How China Lends Dataset, Version 2.0
How China Collateralizes Dataset, Version 1.0
AidData's Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals Dataset, Version 1.0
Beijing’s Big Bet on the Philippines: Decoding two decades of China’s financing for development, Version 1.0
China’s AI Exports Database (CAIED)
AidData's Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0
AidData's Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0
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Events
GeoField 2026 Convening
Building the Future: U.S. and Japanese Development Partnerships in Southeast Asia
China's Global Ports Financing and the Race for Maritime Dominance
The Next Decade of Development Cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tracking China's Global Influence
Competing with the Belt and Road 2.0
China’s Expanding Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean
Landmine Clearance and Economic Development: Evidence from Nighttime Lights, Multispectral Satellite Imagery, and Conflict Events in Afghanistan
Understanding the PRC's approach to public diplomacy
Tracking the Cross-Border Lending Activities of the World's Largest Official Creditor
PRC Influence and the Status of Taiwan's Diplomatic Allies in the Western Hemisphere
Virtual Briefing on "Balancing Risk and Reward"
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News
Beijing’s big bailouts
How China Became a Global Lender of Last Resort
March 27, 2023: Cheques and Imbalances
What the world owes China
China ramping up bailout loans to Belt and Road countries, report says
China spent $240bn on belt and road bailouts from 2008 to 2021, study finds
That big Chinese bailout loan paper in full
China grants billions in bailouts as Belt and Road Initiative falters
China gave huge loans to Belt and Road countries. Now it’s spending billions to bail them out
China spent $240 billion bailing out 'Belt and Road' countries - study
China Lent Heavily to Developing Nations. Now It’s Helping Them Manage Their Debt
China Boosts Lending to Struggling Belt and Road Borrowers
After Doling Out Huge Loans, China Is Now Bailing Out Countries
China’s Expanding Influence in Iraq
China is Uniting Middle East—That's Bad News for U.S.
"Highlights in China's Development Spending "
China’s Global Development Spending
How Democracy Can Win: The Right Way to Counter Autocracy
China's Checkbook Diplomacy Has Bounced
How India’s Belt-Road Initiative snub proved prophetic
China’s Belt and Road to Nowhere
What does China’s reopening mean for Latin America?
Ambition, concern drive Lao-China high-speed rail project
Sri Lanka Is Calm Again. That Doesn’t Mean Things Are Any Better.
China’s Global Mega-Projects Are Falling Apart
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