Bradley Parks and Ammar Malik will examine the nature, scale, composition, and strategic aims of China’s overseas lending program in the industrialized world. They will collect and analyze data on official-sector financial flows from China to advanced economies from 2000 to 2023. The project will result in a publicly accessible database and the findings from the analysis will appear in a report.
Bradley Parks and Ammar Malik will analyze China’s responses to negative reactions to its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). They will expand a database of case studies of BRI projects, examine findings from survey research to identify changes in the perception of China and the BRI in recipient countries, and analyze whether China’s aid policies changed toward those countries. The project’s findings will appear in a series of reports.