Belt and Road

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

No. 2, July 2022

Tracker

Jul 07, 2022

Research

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

Clark Banach, Jacob Gunter

Comment

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.

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

Jacob Gunter

Francesca Ghiretti

Gregor Sebastian

Plamen Tonchev

External publication

Dec 12, 2023

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

No. 3, September 2023

Jacob Gunter

Aya Adachi

Francesca Ghiretti

Gregor Sebastian

Tracker

Sep 27, 2023

Europe's competition with China in third markets

No. 4, December 2022

Jacob Gunter

Aya Adachi

Francesca Ghiretti

Tracker

Dec 14, 2022

Xis global engagements outside "Fortress China" in Q3

No. 3, October 2022

Aya Adachi

Jacob Gunter

Francesca Ghiretti

Tracker

Sep 30, 2022

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

No. 1, March 2022

Francesca Ghiretti

Jacob Gunter

Jacob Mardell

Tracker

Mar 30, 2022

China is securing battery metals on the global stage

Jacob Mardell

Tracker

Dec 16, 2021

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

No. 4, December 2021

Jacob Mardell

Tracker

Dec 16, 2021

COSCO takes stake in Hamburg Port terminal

Jacob Mardell

Giovanni Giamello

Tracker

Sep 30, 2021

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

No. 3, September 2021

Jacob Mardell

Giovanni Giamello

Tracker

Sep 30, 2021

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

What (not) to learn from the Belt and Road Initiative?

Jacob Mardell

Grzegorz Stec

MERICS Briefs

Jul 29, 2021

Competing with China's Belt and Road Initiative

Jacob Mardell

Tracker

Jun 17, 2021

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

No. 2, June 2021

Jacob Mardell

Juliana Bouchaud

Tracker

Jun 17, 2021

MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

No. 1, March 2021

Jacob Mardell

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

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

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Nov 26, 2020

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

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Nov 25, 2020

China’s vaccine diplomacy assumes geopolitical importance

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Nov 24, 2020

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

Matt Ferchen

Sep 29, 2020

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

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Aug 11, 2020

The BRI in Pakistan: China’s flagship economic corridor

Jacob Mardell

Tracker

May 20, 2020

The Digital Silk Road is a development issue

Rebecca Arcesati

Comment

Apr 28, 2020

China’s Central Asian connection

Oyuna Baldakova

Comment

Feb 06, 2020

Toasting pine nuts – the China-Afghan air corridor turns one

Barbara Kelemen

Comment

Jan 13, 2020

China building roads and bridges in Kyrgyzstan: A project fueled by ambition

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Dec 17, 2019

Protests along the BRI: China’s prestige project meets growing resistance

Oyuna Baldakova

Comment

Dec 10, 2019

On the "Middle Corridor," China is largely absent

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Oct 25, 2019

Networking the “Belt and Road” - The future is digital

Thomas S. Eder

Rebecca Arcesati

Jacob Mardell

Tracker

Aug 28, 2019

Brussels makes way for Beijing in the Balkans

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Jul 04, 2019

Powering the Belt and Road

China supports its energy companies’ global expansion and prepares the ground for potential new supply chains

Thomas S. Eder

Jacob Mardell

Tracker

Jun 27, 2019

Belgrade briefings on bossy Brussels and benevolent Beijing

Jacob Mardell

Comment

May 20, 2019

Big, empty, but full of promise? The Great Stone industrial park in Minsk

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Apr 29, 2019

EU-China rail freight: Trade infrastructure investment or propaganda tool?

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Apr 15, 2019

Exploring the physical reality of the "Belt and Road"

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Apr 02, 2019

Traveling 60,000 kilometers across China’s Belt and Road

Jacob Mardell

Comment

Feb 12, 2019

Greening China’s Belt and Road in Africa

Lauren A. Johnston

Comment

Dec 21, 2018

China’s battery industry is powering up for global competition

Anna Holzmann

Comment

Oct 24, 2018

Chinese mercenaries are tightening security on the Belt and Road

Helena Legarda

Comment

Oct 19, 2018

The BRI in Pakistan: Too big to fail

Jacob Mardell

Thomas S. Eder

Comment

Sep 20, 2018

China owns the stage in Africa

Sabine Mokry

Comment

Aug 31, 2018

Insights

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

Podcast

Nov 07, 2024

Experts on Belt and Road

RebeccaArcesati

Rebecca Arcesati

Lead Analyst (Brussels office)

Jacob Gunter

Jacob Gunter

Lead Analyst

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