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Blog Posts
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
AidData launches new Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset
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Publications
Uncovering African Leaders’ Perceptions of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Winning Hearts, Changing Minds: A Data-Driven Approach to Measure China's Influence in Latin America
Into the Breach: Will China Step Up as the U.S. Retreats on Global Development?
Foreign Aid and Conflict: What We Know and Need to Know
Sicomines Copper-Cobalt Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Las Bambas Copper Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Kinsenda Copper Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Toromocho Copper Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Tenke Fungurume Copper-Cobalt Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Tracking China’s Transition Mineral Financing: Methodology and Approach, Version 1.0
Power Playbook: Beijing’s Bid to Secure Overseas Transition Minerals
Exporting the Tools of Dictatorship: The Politics of China’s Technology Transfers
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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
The Implications of “Peak China” for the Belt and Road Initiative?
Risk and resilience in the face of Russian interference in Europe & Eurasia
Data innovation in conflict zones: Collecting and utilizing data to guide climate resilience and security policy in Afghanistan
Reputational Security: The Imperative To Reinvest In U.S. Strategic Communications Capabilities
Launch of the 2023 Development Co-operation Report, "Debating the Aid System"
Cooperation Amid Crisis: How Can Multilateral Organizations Position Themselves to Help Countries Mitigate and Manage Shocks?
Imagining a Dynamic Policy for Gender Mainstreaming in Pakistan
Pakistonomy: Understanding China's BRI Impact
China in East Africa: Lessons for The Developing World
China Research Group: Banking on the Belt and Road
2022 Global Development Forum: Global Disruptions in International Development
America's Role in the World: International Development in an Era of Great Power Competition
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Sudan conflict delivers fresh blow to China’s African lending strategy
How China changed the game for countries in default
China Is a Loan Shark With No Legs Left to Break
U.S.-China split shadows hopes for lifting debt load from global economy
How to survive a superpower split
China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse
Mysterious Killing of Chinese Gold Miners Puts New Pressure on Beijing
China-U.S. Fight for Influence Runs Through Police in Pacific
China's Lending Practices Are Not a Good Look
China’s ‘Belt and Road’ grew out of a lending spree. Now those loans may be its problem
The ‘rift is there’: China vs. the world on global debt
The IMF faces a nightmarish identity crisis
Will Donald Trump's popularity be boosted by his indictment?
Spain Pitches Closer EU-Latin America Ties
China’s Financial Diplomacy Is Still Minor League
How to avoid a developing world debt crisis
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
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