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Blog Posts
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
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
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
Talking Point: Central Asia Crossroads, with Samantha Custer & Indian Ambassador Asoke Mukerji
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News
China is celebrating a decade of the Belt and Road Initiative. What is it about?
China Reboots Its Belt and Road Initiative
China’s promise of prosperity brought Laos debt — and distress
China or US: Who's delaying debt relief to developing world
Where next for China’s Belt and Road?
Sri Lanka shows how broken debt negotiations have become
China has poured billions into Africa’s infrastructure. Is it now tightening the tap?
China Faces a Familiar Economic Downturn. But Its Crisis Is Worsened by the War in Ukraine
How China’s Belt and Road Took Over the World
A Decade Down the Belt and Road
Blue-water ambitions: Is China looking beyond its neighborhood now it has the world’s largest navy?
China's Xi pledges to support Africa's industrialisation at BRICS
China’s blueprint for an alternative world order
China will challenge the US Navy for global dominance
China Keeping Details of Investment Deals From Bolivian Public and Congress, Sources Claim
Pakistan hails Belt and Road wins 'prematurely' as polls loom
China’s Top Option for Next Naval Base Is Sri Lanka, Report Says
China may be planning overseas naval bases in Asia and Africa, say analysts
Beijing Is Going Places—and Building Naval Bases
What China’s future overseas military expansion could look like, according to a new report
China builds on 60-year record to strengthen medical ties with Africa
Why China Has a Giant Pile of Debt
Investing in Africa: What needs to change?
Explainer: What is China's position on restructuring debt owed by poor nations?
US inflation beats forecasts but remains high
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