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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
Young minds, global insights: The student experience on AidData’s TUFF Team
AidData and RAND release new dataset, report on China’s AI exports
Belt and Road bounces back, as Beijing seeks to future-proof its flagship global infrastructure initiative
AidData’s China data wins 2023 Best Dataset Award from IPES
How far can the BRI take China? AidData authors examine one possible geopolitical gain: naval ports
“一带一路”救助贷款达到创纪录水平,引发对中国旗舰全球基础设施计划前途的质疑
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Publications
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low- and middle-income countries
A Comparative Study of Traditional Donors and Non-traditional Donors in Sri Lanka
Spotlight on PRC Engagement in Honduras Relative to Central America
Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Investing in Narratives: How Beijing promotes its development projects in the Philippines
China’s hidden role in malaria control and elimination in Africa
Does India Use Development Finance to Compete With China? A Subnational Analysis
AidData’s Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset
Beijing’s Big Bet on the Philippines: Decoding two decades of China’s financing for development
China’s AI Exports: Developing a Tool to Track Chinese Development Finance in the Global South—Technical Documentation
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
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Datasets
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
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
Reimagining Evaluations Through a Geospatial Lens
Banking on China's Belt and Road Initiative: Where does CPEC stand on the global map?
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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
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
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