Banking on the Belt and Road: Insights from a New Global Dataset of 13,427 Chinese Development Projects

Bradley C. Parks, Aiddata Executive Director, and Ammar Malik, Aiddata Senior Research Scientist

Corridors of Power: How Beijing Uses Economic, Social, and Network Ties to Exert Influence Along the Silk Road

Samantha Custer, Aiddata Director of Policy Analysis

April 15, 2022

The Volumetric Presence of China in Nepal

Galen Murton, James Madison University

November 19, 2021

Central Asia's Perceptions of the BRI: Hopes & Concerns

Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University

April 16, 2021

Book Launch: China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the new Geopolitics of Eurasia

Daniel S. Markey, Johns Hopkins University

Friday, March 26, 2021


Minxin Xiangtong ⺠心相通 and People-to-People (P2P) Relations along the New Silk Roads

Sophia Kidd, Sichuan University

March 12, 2021


An American International Lawyer Considers China’s Belt & Road

David Day, Belt & Road Task Force, American Bar Association

February 25, 2021


The Geopolitics of International Trade in Southeast Asia

Kerem Cosar, Professor of Economics, University of Virginia

September 18, 2020


Assessing the Politics and Economics of China's Belt and Road Initiative: A Workshop at the University of Virginia

November 15, 2019

Rush Doshi (Brookings Institute): "The Role of Belt and Road Initiative in China's Foreign Policy"

Harry Harding (University Professor, Batten School) "The American Strategy of Promoting Development Around the World"


Francois de Soyres (Federal Reserve Board of Governors, International Finance Division): "Common Transport Infrastructure: Estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative"

Complementing and Competing Visions of China's Belt and Road Initiative: A Conference at the University of Virginia

March 2, 2019

Brantly Womack (UVA): "China and the Re-Centering of Africa"

Xiao Ren (Fudan University): "The Belt and Road Initiative: What Is It?"

Harry Harding (UVA): "More Competing than Complementary: American Assessments of China's Belt and Road Initiative"

Shawn Lyons (UVA): "Fanfare and Dismay: China's Belt and Road Initiative throughout Uzbek Media"

John Echeverri-Gent (UVA): "Development Boon or Trojan Horse? The BRI in South Asia: The View from India​"

Ching Kwan Lee (UCLA): "The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa"

Yoon Jung Park (SAIS, Johns Hopkins University): "Chinese Migrants in Africa: Grassroots Encounters between Africa and China in the BRI Era"

Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell): "The Long Path to One Belt One Road: History and Environment in Sino-Southeast Asia, 600-1600 CE"

Howard Epstein (UVA): "Big Earth Data for Environment Change within the Belt and Road Region"; Concluding Remarks: Krishan Kumar (UVA), Joseph C. Miller (UVA)