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Competing visions for the Indian Ocean: China’s influence in South and Central Asia
Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program
How we constructed the world’s largest dataset on China’s overseas spending
Global insights with national implications: AidData’s policy engagements on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
AidData publishes a controversial $200m Chinese loan contract for Uganda’s main airport
Call for Papers—Separating fact from fiction: China’s growing global influence and its implications
AidData’s new dataset of 13,427 Chinese development projects worth $843 billion reveals major increase in ‘hidden debt’ and Belt and Road Initiative implementation problems
TUFF Cookies: Students aim for policy impact through hard-hitting research, part one
TUFF Cookies: Students aim for policy impact through hard-hitting research, part two
New study shines a light on Beijing’s secretive international lending program
AidData wins two-year Ford Foundation grant to close the evidence gap on China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Chinese infrastructure investments shift economic activity, reduce spatial inequalities, finds new paper
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Publications
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
China's AI Exports: Technology Distribution and Data Safety
Highway to the forest? Land governance and the siting and environmental impacts of Chinese government-funded road building in Cambodia
Why hide? Africa’s unreported debt to China
Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival
Tracking Chinese Development Finance: An Application of AidData’s TUFF 3.0 Methodology
Belt and Road Reboot: Beijing’s Bid to De-Risk Its Global Infrastructure Initiative
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Datasets
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
BRI-Tagged Chinese Official Finance Dataset, Version 1.0
China's Official Seaport Finance Dataset, 2000-2021
China as an International Lender of Last Resort Dataset, Version 1.0.1
AidData’s Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 2.0
How China Lends Dataset, Version 1.0
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Events
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"
Data Journalism Training on Global Development Finance
U.S.-China Relations in 2025: Trade, Economy, and Looking to the Future
How Can Indo-Pacific Countries Bargain for Better Deals with Development Partners?
Investing in Tanzania's People | Kuwekeza kwa Watu wa Tanzania
China's AI Exports: Implications for Asia and Africa (RAND)
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News
China’s Belt and Road spending in Russia drops to zero
China Is Playing Hardball with Troubled Debtors. That’s Dangerous for All of Us.
Renewables in the mix for Japan’s financing of African development
China reckons with its first overseas debt crisis
Analysis: China casts giant shadow over emerging nations' chase for debt relief
Sri Lanka’s Debt Crisis Tests China’s Role as Financier to Poor Countries
Global Investors Dump Bonds of Chinese Banks That Lent Heavily to Russia
G7's $600B infrastructure bid to counter China
China-Uganda loan deal for Entebbe Airport is binding: MPs
The Myth of the Chinese Debt Trap in Africa
China’s overseas lending and the war in Ukraine
Report casts doubt on Chinese debt-trap threat to Kenya’s Mombasa port
Nepal’s economic woes, following Sri Lanka’s crisis, turn up the heat on China’s belt and road loans
Op-ed: The four big threats to China’s economy
China funnels its overseas aid money into political leaders’ home provinces
Chinese loans and investment in infrastructure have been huge
The Chinese-African relationship is important to both sides, but also unbalanced
The price of friendship
China Exim Bank’s Controversial Loan to Expand Uganda’s Entebbe Airport
Systematic underreporting of public debt statistics: 50 years of evidence and recent progress
Moscow’s Shadow Dogged China’s Economic Links to Ukraine
The Russo-Ukrainian Warfare: What went wrong?
Is Uganda’s Entebbe airport at risk of seizure by China?
How China can help Russia survive economic sanctions
Chinese lenders squeeze African borrowers even harder
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