Check out my latest report for China Dialogue about the potential contributions China can make to help climate-vulnerable countries address loss and damage. I am grateful to all the experts who have spoken to me. chinadialogue.net/en/climate/how…

A new article by our team member Baocheng Liu discusses how #China under President Xi may need to balance market economy and state control SUM – Centre for Development and the Environment Asianettverket nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chin…

Wishing you all that the year of the rabbit will be as sweet as the little rabbits celebrating in Oslo 新年快乐

#policybrief from Boston University Global Development Policy Center on #China Overseas #Development Finance in the #covid19 era. Some key findings: decline of lending to oil firms, decline on project overlap with environmentally sensitive territories. bu.edu/gdp/2023/01/19…

A new report #MunichSecurityConference2023 discusses #European and #NorthAmerican priorities for transatlantic #China policy. Some key areas include: economic security and the technology edge, infrastructure and connectivity and climate change etc. securityconference.org/en/publication…

China should respond to pressures from the U.S. and its allies by building a new global system based on coalitions with Global South countries. So argues Yang Ping, the publisher and editor-in-chief of the influential magazine Beijing Cultural Review. chinaglobalsouth.com/2023/02/21/why…

📣 EVENT Register to reserve your space for our informative webinar on Interpreting Data and Data Sources: Tracking China’s Overseas Lending, Development Finance and Global Energy Finance Databases, together with Boston University Global Development Policy Center. 📅 March 8, 2023 ➡️ RSVP bit.ly/3ImPXjZ

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the China Exim Bank presented its offer to provide Sri Lanka debt relief and will not make any further proposals on the issue at this time. chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/china…

Some key findings from the BRI Investment report 2022 by Christoph Nedopil FuDan University: steady BRI #Finance and investments; fossil fuels constituted about 63% of Chinese BRI overseas energy engagement; #GreenEnergy engagement increased 50% greenfdc.org/china-belt-and…

"It is misleading at best and outright mistaken at worst to assume that China poses a greater debt burden than Multilateral Development Banks in all instances" -- Hannah Ryder (芮 婉 洁) & Etsehiwot Kebret thediplomat.com/2023/02/chinas…

Best China analysis I’ve read in a while. Spot on. foreignaffairs.com/china/xi-survi…

What is the true strength of the Chinese Communist Party? According to Vice Minister Guo Yezhou, it is two-fold: 1. Ability to think and plan short term, medium term and long term 2. Capacity to implement, even though there may be disagreements in the planning phase

Seminar last week: #ChinaNorway collaboration in the areas of #Geopolitics #Education & #Business Speakers&participants Harald X Mette Moller Jensen Bjørn Kvalen Dan Banik &Jo Inge Bekkevold discussed the importance of dialogue and constructive interactions in a challenging geopolitical situation

A new essay from our research team by Antulio Rosales on the #China-#Venezuela relationship highlights important limitations on the principle of #nonintervention in its #developmentfinance. SUM – Centre for Development and the Environment Asianettverket thepeoplesmap.net/globalchinapul…

This is really worth checking out. I have contributed with an article on the struggle between China and the US over IDB, but lots of other interesting and easily accessible articles on China's global engagement.

#China sets GDP target of "around 5%" for 2023 and continues the #transition to #green development gingerriver.com/p/full-text-an…

We congratulate Benedicte Bull on her new appointment as expert at the China and Latin America Network (REDCAEM) Red China y América Latina (REDCAEM) SUM – Centre for Development and the Environment Asianettverket sum.uio.no/english/resear…

Encouraging news

En ny kronikk fra Professor Benedicte Bull: #LatinAmerikas ønske om alliansefrihet handler først og fremst om å forbeholde seg retten til ikke å velge side i rivaliseringen mellom #USA og #Kina. aftenposten.no/meninger/kroni…

What is reality and what is rhetoric in the relationship between #China and #LatinAmerica ? In this article, Benedicte Bull examines five common claims. SUM – Centre for Development and the Environment Asianettverket dagsavisen.no/debatt/komment…