Belt and Road

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Belt and Road

China’s global port politics, with Clark Banach and Jacob Gunter

Podcast

Nov 07, 2024

The first cargo ship of COSCO Shipping's "Yantai - Southeast Asia" container line loads containers at Yantai Port in Yantai, Shandong province, China, August 15, 2024.

Mapping China’s global port network: on the backfoot in 2024, but still well entrenched

Clark Banach

Jacob Gunter

Comment

Nov 07, 2024

Chinese investments in European non-maritime transport infrastructure (European Parliament)

Jacob Gunter

Francesca Ghiretti

Gregor Sebastian

Plamen Tonchev

External publication

Dec 12, 2023

picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Louise Delmotte

Don’t count on China’s Belt and Road Initiative to disappear

Jacob Gunter

Comment

Nov 01, 2023

A decade of the Belt and Road Initiative, with Clark Banach and Jacob Gunter

Podcast

Oct 20, 2023

China Inc is recalibrating its approach to its overseas footprint as the BRI turns 10 years old

Jacob Gunter

Aya Adachi

Francesca Ghiretti

Gregor Sebastian

China Global Competition Tracker

Sep 27, 2023

Rethinking China's Belt and Road (Deutsche Welle)

Francesca Ghiretti

External publication

May 20, 2023

A train pulls into Dongwu port District to carry an inbound iron ore unloaded by a foreign ship in Putian, Fujian province, China, Sept 29, 2022

Europe's competition with China in third markets

Jacob Gunter

Aya Adachi

Francesca Ghiretti

China Global Competition Tracker

Dec 14, 2022

After the Party Congress, where is the Belt and Road Initiative going?

Francesca Ghiretti

Comment

Nov 11, 2022

22nd Summit of SCO Council of Heads of State in Samarkand

Xis global engagements outside "Fortress China" in Q3

Aya Adachi

Jacob Gunter

Francesca Ghiretti

China Global Competition Tracker

Sep 30, 2022

A large number of vehicles for export goods are waiting to be loaded at The port of Yantai, East China's Shandong Province.

Economic stress has repercussions for China's ambitions

Aya Adachi

Jacob Gunter

Jacob Mardell

China Global Competition Tracker

Jul 07, 2022

The BRI and the war in Ukraine, with Francesca Ghiretti and Jacob Mardell

Podcast

May 27, 2022

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

Francesca Ghiretti

Jacob Gunter

Jacob Mardell

China Global Competition Tracker

Mar 30, 2022

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen talks to media at the end of the weekly EU Commission meeting, in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on December 1, 2021 in Brussels, Belgium.

Global Gateway: playing “catch-up” with China or a chance for change?

Francesca Ghiretti

Grzegorz Stec

Comment

Jan 10, 2022

China is securing battery metals on the global stage

Jacob Mardell

China Global Competition Tracker

Dec 16, 2021

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

Jacob Mardell

China Global Competition Tracker

Dec 16, 2021

COSCO takes stake in Hamburg Port terminal

Jacob Mardell

Giovanni Giamello

China Global Competition Tracker

Sep 30, 2021

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

Jacob Mardell

Giovanni Giamello

China Global Competition Tracker

Sep 30, 2021

The Belt and Road Initiative promoted China's image on the global stage (Deutschlandfunk)

Jan Weidenfeld

Interview

Aug 09, 2021

EU-China Opinion Pool: The new EU connectivity initiative - Defining success

Janka Oertel

Sven Biscop

Jakub Jakóbowski

Grzegorz Stec

Maaike Okano-Heijmans

Comment

Aug 05, 2021

The EU’s new connectivity agenda – What (not) to learn from the Belt and Road Initiative?

Jacob Mardell

Grzegorz Stec

MERICS Europe China 360°

Jul 29, 2021

Competing with China's Belt and Road Initiative

Jacob Mardell

China Global Competition Tracker

Jun 17, 2021

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

Jacob Mardell

Juliana Bouchaud

China Global Competition Tracker

Jun 17, 2021

Beijing fills gaps left by Brussels in the Western Balkans

Jacob Mardell

China Global Competition Tracker

Mar 18, 2021

Aerial view of colorful freight trains in North China

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

Jacob Mardell

China Global Competition Tracker

Mar 17, 2021

The Two Faces of the China Model. BRI in Southeast Asia.

Matt Ferchen

External publication

Jan 15, 2021

The BRI in Latin America

Matt Ferchen

External publication

Jan 15, 2021

Chinese medical experts arrive in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Aug. 4, 2020.

China’s global healthcare ambitions: Gaining influence on the international stage

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Nov 26, 2020

Chinese-aided Children's Hospital of Diamniadio, Senegal, receives donated medical supplies on June 19, 2020.

China’s “Health Silk Road”: Adapting the BRI to a pandemic-era world

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Nov 25, 2020

Two new crown inactivated vaccine by the national medicine group China biological.

China’s vaccine diplomacy assumes geopolitical importance

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Nov 24, 2020

Two cooling towers of the Sahiwal Coal Power plant

Plamen Tonchev on "greening" the Belt and Road Initiative

Interview

Oct 22, 2020

All roads lead to Beijing (Edition - Le Monde Diplomatique)

Jan Weidenfeld

Claudia Wessling

External publication

Oct 13, 2020

China-Venezuela Relations in the Twenty-First Century (USIP Special Report)

Matt Ferchen

Sep 29, 2020

Padma Bridge in Bangladesh, constructed by China Major Bridge Engineering Company

The BRI in Bangladesh: Walking the tightrope between Beijing and Delhi

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Aug 11, 2020

Experts on Belt and Road

Rebecca Arcesati

Lead Analyst

Technology; digital policy; artificial intelligence

Jacob Gunter

Head of Program

China's political economy; Industrial policy; Innovation

Belt and Road

China’s global port politics, with Clark Banach and Jacob Gunter

Mapping China’s global port network: on the backfoot in 2024, but still well entrenched

Don’t count on China’s Belt and Road Initiative to disappear

A decade of the Belt and Road Initiative, with Clark Banach and Jacob Gunter

China Inc is recalibrating its approach to its overseas footprint as the BRI turns 10 years old

Europe's competition with China in third markets

After the Party Congress, where is the Belt and Road Initiative going?

Xis global engagements outside "Fortress China" in Q3

Economic stress has repercussions for China's ambitions

The BRI and the war in Ukraine, with Francesca Ghiretti and Jacob Mardell

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

Global Gateway: playing “catch-up” with China or a chance for change?

China is securing battery metals on the global stage

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

COSCO takes stake in Hamburg Port terminal

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

EU-China Opinion Pool: The new EU connectivity initiative - Defining success

The EU’s new connectivity agenda – What (not) to learn from the Belt and Road Initiative?

Competing with China's Belt and Road Initiative

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

Beijing fills gaps left by Brussels in the Western Balkans

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

China’s global healthcare ambitions: Gaining influence on the international stage

China’s “Health Silk Road”: Adapting the BRI to a pandemic-era world

China’s vaccine diplomacy assumes geopolitical importance

Plamen Tonchev on "greening" the Belt and Road Initiative

The BRI in Bangladesh: Walking the tightrope between Beijing and Delhi

Rebecca Arcesati

Jacob Gunter

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