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2026

  1. Media
    Andrew Grant on China’s Response to the Nepal Floods on BBC News

    Andrew Grant, Andrew Grant

  2. Research brief
    Central Asian Agency: from the Shanghai Five to the SCO

    Assel G. Bitabar , Assel G. Bitabar

  3. MGC Story
    From trade to production amongst Chinese businesses in Ghana

    Elisa Gambino

  4. Media
    Shaoyu Yuan on China’s Soft Power at the 2026 World Cup in The Washington Post

    Shaoyu Yuan, Shaoyu Yuan

  5. Research brief
    China’s Belt and Road must adapt to survive a hotter world

    Jiayong Liang, Maria Adele Carrai, Xiaojiao Wang, Jiayong Liang, Maria Adele Carrai, Xiaojiao Wang

  6. Research brief
    Cityzenship: How Are Cities - not Nations - Remapping China’s International Education and Returnees

    Zhe Wang

  7. Research brief
    China’s Digital Diplomacy in Kazakhstan: A Study of Instagram Posts from 2024 to 2025

    Assel G. Bitabar, Felix Chang, Sunnie Rucker-Chang

2025

  1. Article
    Symbolic power and the reception of Chinese narratives on the China–Pakistan economic corridor: adaptation and contestation

    Davide Giacomo Zoppolato, Filippo Boni, Davide Giacomo Zoppolato, Filippo Boni

  2. Article
    Beyond trade? Chinese private capital under the African Continental Free Trade Area

    Elisa Gambino, Elisa Gambino

  3. Article
    Conceptualising autocracy promotion as commercialisation: marketising narratives and Chinese responses to central Asian protests

    Giulia Sciorati, Giulia Sciorati

  4. Book
    Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director, Volume 1

    Jinghan Zeng, Jinghan Zeng

  5. Article
    Flexible embeddedness: how Chinese lead firms internationalise in Africa

    Elisa Gambino, Elisa Gambino

  6. Research brief
    A New World Cop on the Beat? China’s Internal Security Outreach Under the Global Security Initiative

    Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Isaac B. Kardon, Cameron Waltz

  7. Research brief
    Is China Really in the Driver’s Seat for BRI Projects in Africa?

    Julie Yu Wen Chen

  8. Article
    Security without Exclusivity: Hybrid Alignment under U.S.-China Competition

    Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Sheena Chestnut Greitens

  9. Article
    Security without Exclusivity: Hybrid Alignment under U.S.-China Competition

    Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Isaac B. Kardon

  10. Research brief
    Can China Lead Global AI Governance?

    Jing Cheng, Jinghan Zeng

2024

  1. Article
    From play to power: china’s video games as instruments of soft power

    Shaoyu Yuan, Shaoyu Yuan

  2. Article
    A tale of two ports: relational power in COSCO’s European port investments

    Giles Mohan, Giles Mohan

  3. Article
    Closing the sub-frontier: corridorising Tibet and the social life of pervasive security

    Andrew Grant, Andrew Grant

  4. Article
    China's Foreign Police Training: A Global Footprint

    Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Isaac B. Kardon, Cameron Waltz

  5. Article
    Goodbye, Wolf Warrior: charting China's transition to a more accommodating diplomacy

    Shaoyu Yuan, Shaoyu Yuan

  6. Article
    De-risking, re-balancing and recentralising: Intra-state relations in Chinese-backed transport infrastructure projects in Europe

    Giles Mohan, Giles Mohan

  7. Research brief
    Knowledge Transfer Synergism between China and Africa: a case study in ethiopia’s manufacturing sector

    Tang Xiaoyang

  8. Article
    Corridors, chokepoints and the contradictions of the Belt and Road Initiative

    Galen Murton, Galen Murton

2023

  1. Article
    Tracing China’s diplomatic transition to wolf warrior diplomacy and its implications

    Shaoyu Yuan, Shaoyu Yuan

  2. Article
    China Planet: Ecological Civilization and Global Climate Governance

    Judith Shapiro, Yifei Li

  3. Research brief
    China’s Digital Footprint Grows in the Middle East & North Africa

    Dale Aluf

  4. Research brief
    ‘Germany’s China City’: Iron Silk Road Terminal of Duisburg

    Giulia Romano, Markus Taube

  5. Article
    Beyond the BRI: the volumetric presence of China in Nepal

    Galen Murton, Galen Murton

  6. Article
    China’s Minimalist Global Military Posture: Great Power Lite?

    Andrew Scobell, Andrew Scobell

  7. Article
    The Impact of China's AIIB on the World Bank

    Jing Qian, Jing Qian

  8. Article
    ‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites

2022

  1. Research brief
    China’s 16+1 Format in Crisis – Not Yet an Obituary

    Alfred Gerstl

  2. Article
    Chinese Soft Power

    Maria Repnikova, Maria Repnikova

2021

  1. Article
    Power of blank spaces: A critical cartography of China's Belt and Road Initiative

    Galen Murton, Galen Murton

  2. Article
    Adaptive governance along Chinese-financed BRI railroad megaprojects in East Africa

    Maria Adele Carrai, Maria Adele Carrai

2020

  1. Article
    Below the Belt? Territory and Development in China's International Rise

    Giles Mohan, Giles Mohan

  2. Article
    Trans-Himalayan power corridors: Infrastructural politics and China's Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal

    Galen Murton, Galen Murton

  3. Article
    Crossing Khorgos: Soft power, security, and suspect loyalties at the Sino-Kazakh boundary

    Andrew Grant, Andrew Grant

2019

  1. Book
    Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept since 1840

    Maria Adele Carrai, Maria Adele Carrai

  2. Article
    China’s double body: infrastructure routes and the mapping of China’s nation-state and civilization-state

    Andrew Grant, Andrew Grant

2018

  1. Article
    Market Opportunities and Political Responsibilities: The Difficult Development of Chinese Private Security Companies Abroad

    Andrea Ghiselli, Andrea Ghiselli