This study compares China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and US infrastructure diplomacy, in the context of their influence over the Global South. Historically, both superpowers have viewed the Global South as a critical sphere of influence, a trend that remains evident in the twenty-first century. With China’s rise as a global power, its extensive…

Since Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, 一带一路) in 2013, discussions about it have become ubiquitous and heightened interest in Silk Road histories, archaeology, and heritage……

As part of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China is increasingly investing abroad and has become an important country for development financing. Many commentators have expressed concern that the country is defying the Western path of sustainable development guided by the rule of law and good governance standards……

This Handbook approaches Chinese Studies from an interdisciplinary perspective while attempting to establish a fundamental set of core values and tenets for the subject, in relation to the further development of Chinese Studies as an academic discipline. It aims to consolidate the current findings in Chinese Studies, extract the essence from each affiliated discipline, formulate…

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China’s rise as a global power over the past few decades has been accompanied by its increased engagement with the world. Its relationship with Africa is no exception. Since the Third Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in 2006, China- Africa relations have been flourishing.

China’s emergence as a great power has been accompanied by the official rhetoric of the China Dream of Great Rejuvenation (weida fuxing 伟大复兴). Although there are conflicting views among academics and political elites about the exact content of the China Dream, one of its features is the nostalgia for China’s past and its five-thousand-year-old civilization……

What are the implications of writing the history of legal issues? Eighteen authors from different legal systems and backgrounds offer different answers, by examining the history writing on issues ranging from slavery over the use of force to extraterritorial jurisdiction. Contributions show how historiography has often distorted or neglected regional cultures and suggest alternative methods…

Chinese regulations and guidelines on the BRI’s outward FDI increasingly align with international standards and best practices. However, this Perspective highlights that the voluntary nature of most of the guidelines and the Chinese central government’s lack of control over its economic actors abroad makes China’s approach adaptive to host countries.

Since China and Sri Lank signed a 99-year Concession Agreement for the 15,000 acres of Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka in 2017 as part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), media outlets and academics have used the Agreement as a proof of China’s new interventionist and expansionist attitude, realized through debt-trap diplomacy…….