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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
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
Chinese aid and health at the country and local level
The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa
Chinese health funding in Africa: The untold story
Harboring Global Ambitions: China's Ports Footprint and Implications for Future Overseas Naval Bases
Debt Distress on China’s Belt and Road
China as an International Lender of Last Resort
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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
Pakistan taps Chinese credit for railway upgrade despite debt crisis
China Props Up Belt-and-Road Borrowers Via Unusual Channel
China lends billions to poor countries. Is that a burden ... or a blessing?
Laos' debt pressure raises specter of a China vassal state
Debt of emerging countries: China in the dock
Kenya’s $3.8 Billion Chinese-Built Railway Shows Why Belt and Road Is Being Reworked
« Nouvelles routes de la soie » : comment le chantier du siècle de la Chine s’est enlisé
India’s plan to take on China as south Asia’s favourite lender
Hundreds in Shanghai demand China leader resignation
Errant Remark on China Rescuing El Salvador Shows Pressure on Xi
South Asia Is Missing out on the Clean Energy Transition
Pakistan PM Sharif's China trip brings 'more words, little action'
Africa needs more help with its Chinese debts
Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict: Truce agreed
Chinese foreign development aims and impact — Brad Parks on "Intelligence Matters"
China’s Pacific tour spurs hopes and fears in tiny island nations
This is where China is investing its billions (and why)
Laos economic crisis intensifies amid massive Chinese debt
How Xi has changed China
Despite Huge Problems, Pakistan Remains Indispensable to China
How China Plans to Salvage Its Faltering Belt and Road Initiative
China-indebted Laos way more broke than advertised
In Global Slowdown, China Holds Sway Over Countriesʼ Fates
Asia's ticking debt bomb: Sri Lanka crisis sounds alarm bells across region
Planet Money: China's global lending binge
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