FPRI: China’s 5G networks: A tool for advancing digital authoritarianism abroad?
This article examines the claim that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) promotes its commercial interests in building 5G network infrastructure abroad to advance digital... MORE
FPRI: Deficit Trap?: Trade Balances and China’s Belt and Road
“Senseless and baseless.” That was how a top Chinese official described claims that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which officially launched in 2013, had... MORE
FPRI: China’s Belt and Road Initiative Meets Slowing Global Trade
During the early 2010s, developing countries were keen to get in on the global trade boom that brought prosperity to many countries, most famously China,... MORE
FPRI: China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Kenya
Through trade, investment, and strategic diplomacy, China is re-shaping sub-Saharan Africa. Beijing has growing economic ties with Africa’s largest economies and Chinese firms dominate infrastructure... MORE