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AidData wins grant from the Ford Foundation to track latest trends in China’s overseas development program
W&M hosts inaugural conference on China’s global influence
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
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Publications
Chasing China: Learning to Play by Beijing's Global Lending Rules
Tracking Loans and Grants from China to Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries: An Application of AidData’s TUFF 4.0 Methodology
Greening the Indo-Pacific: China’s development finance portfolio for renewable energy
Competing with the Belt and Road 2.0
What China’s Economic Slowdown Means for Key Countries: Case Studies
How China Lends 2.0: Introducing an extended dataset of 371 debt contracts
How China Collateralizes
Balancing Risk and Reward: Who benefits from China's investments in Indonesia?
Aid Projects and Firm Performance
Uncovering African Leaders’ Perceptions of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
PRC Influence and the Status of Taiwan's Diplomatic Allies in the Western Hemisphere
Winning Hearts, Changing Minds: A Data-Driven Approach to Measure China's Influence in Latin America
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Datasets
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
BRI-Tagged Chinese Official Finance Dataset, Version 1.0
China's Official Seaport Finance Dataset, 2000-2021
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Events
Webinar: The next decade of development cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Virtual Conversation on "Chasing China"
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?
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News
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?
Ambition, concern drive Lao-China high-speed rail project
Sri Lanka Is Calm Again. That Doesn’t Mean Things Are Any Better.
China’s Global Mega-Projects Are Falling Apart
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'
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