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China and the Lao Electrical Grid: Implications for Future Borrowers and China

Introduction On 4 September, Reuters reported that the government of Laos, on the verge of default on its debt, planned to establish a jo...

Rewriting History: How Beijing uses KMT Histories to Forward Its Policy Objectives

Image: Xi Jinping Visits the Siping Battle Memorial Hall in Jilin Province, July 2020. In recent months, Beijing has propagated two milit...

Raiders of the Propaganda Arc: The CCP Touts Archaeology to Boost China’s “Cultural Self-Confidence”

Image: On May 11, 2020, CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the Yungang Grottoes [云冈石窟] near Datong City (Shanxi Province) to "inspe...

The CCP Politburo Reviews Revised Regulations for Party Affairs

On 30 November, People’s Republic of China (PRC) state press announced a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo meeting held the same da...

China, COVID-19, and Developing Country Debt

The COVID-19 pandemic has put enormous stress on many of the world’s government budgets. The world’s poorest countries in particular are ...

Xi Jinping's Xi'an Visit Indicates CCP Objectives and Centrality of Loyalty to the Party

[Xi Jinping delivers a short speech at Xi’an Jiaotong University on 22 April, 2020: WATCH HERE] The final weeks of April were an importan...

Why China's GDP Has the Central Bank Worried

[People's Bank of China Governor Yi Gang] Over the last two years, I’ve written pieces for this blog about how debt accumulation and slow...

Virulent Rhetoric: Chinese State Claims of US Biological Warfare from the Korean War to COVID-19

As Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads throughout the globe, rumors and misinformation regarding the illness are keeping pace wit...

Resource-Backed Loans, Revisited: Infrastructure for Aluminum in Ghana and Guinea

This two-part series analyzes past, present, and future trends in China’s resource-backed loans. Part I looked at why China made frequent...

The Rise and Fall of the Resource-backed Loan

This two-part series analyzes past, present, and future trends in China’s resource-backed loans. This installment (Part I) looks at why C...

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