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Blog Posts
Competition continues between China and Taiwan for Latin American allies
How China is financing its domestic shipbuilding and vessel acquisition industry
As development finance shifts, AidData event explores Indo-Pacific prospects for aid and credit deals
Chasing copper and cobalt: China’s mining operations in Peru and the DRC
China’s global scanner dissemination
New AidData report, dataset track China’s investments in critical minerals
Decoding the message: Uncovering Beijing’s media strategies in the Philippines
As Latin America shifts toward China, AidData research examines Beijing’s growing influence
Mapping China’s COVID-19 aid footprint
Chancay port opens as China’s gateway to South America
Amidst rising tensions, Beijing bets big in the Philippines
Extending AidData’s global reach and impact through a new training initiative
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Publications
China as an International Lender of Last Resort
How China Lends: A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts with Foreign Governments
Delivering the Belt and Road: Decoding the supply of and demand for Chinese overseas development projects
Why Hide? Africa’s Unreported Debt to China
China’s influence in South and Central Asia: Competition in the Indian Ocean and China’s engagement with Sri Lanka and the Maldives
Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program
IMF Programs, Chinese Lending, and the Political Economy of Leader Survival
Global insights with national implications: AidData’s policy engagements on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Is Beijing a predatory lender? New evidence from a previously undisclosed loan contract for the Entebbe International Airport Upgrading and Expansion Project
Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries
Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level
Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries
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Datasets
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
AidData's Geocoded Global Chinese Official Finance Dataset, Version 1.1.1
Events
America's Role in the World: International Development in an Era of Great Power Competition
Sri Lanka's Economy on Life Support: Causes, Lessons, and Solutions
How to build a data-driven public service: Inclusive data practices
Financing and operations of multilateral development banks: a clients’ perspective
What is behind China's lending abroad?
Xi's New Global Development Initiative
Banking on Beijing: Book Talk with Brad Parks
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Hearing on "China’s Activities and Influence in South and Central Asia"
Corridors of Power Dataset Release
Russia, Ukraine, and the Future of Global Order
Economic Connectivity and Competition in a Multipolar Asia: Institute for Peace & Diplomacy
The China-Global South conference: Mapping China’s political and information influence in the Global South
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News
China’s Belt and Road Initiative projects may be faltering
US aims to counter China's influence in global institutions, Yellen says
Your Wednesday Briefing: China’s Billions in Bailouts
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?
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