Introduction to Chinas Overseas

How is the rise of China affecting international governance? This paper examines the domain of infrastructure finance by focusing on China’s two policy banks, which are the main creditors of China’s overseas infrastructure projects.

Fourthly, the expansibility test shows that the quality of the text of bilateral investment treaties have a significant promoting effect on China’s overseas M&A.

For Chinese firms operating abroad, we find that China’s overseas facilities are associated with higher water stress, floods, and hurricanes & typhoon risks across host countries, compared with non-Chinese companies.

As an innovative mode of China’s foreign direct investment, China’s overseas industrial parks are not only the main content of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) but also the practical carrier of policy transfer.

China’s overseas industrial parks contribute to political and economic cooperation, cultural exchange between home and host countries.

This paper addresses the question why the sustainability performance of China’s overseas financing is still ostensibly weak in despite of these government’s efforts.

With that aim, it studies China’s overseas land investments for the production of soybeans, rice and sugarcane in the period 2000-2019.

They are an important production area of the world’s energy resources and an export area of the world’s energy industry, which greatly compensates for the shortage of China’s overseas energy resources supply.

It is critical to understand current performance and establish a baseline understanding of the environmental impacts of China’s overseas projects thus far.

The results reveal that China’s overseas investment in clean energy has developed rapidly.

China’s rapid economic development, increasing awareness among Chinese public opinion, policy support in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, growing demand for projects that alleviate the environmental and social concerns related to China’s overseas investment, and increasing international exposure have all driven this phenomenon.

Using cross-border mergers and acquisitions data, we demonstrate that since mid-2010s China’s overseas investment has tilted toward sectors where China has a comparative advantage in the global markets, a trend similar to that of other major foreign direct investment (FDI) source countries.

By using qualitative research method based on literature and data analysis, this article concludes that a significant shift in China’s defence policy with the military modernization that follows plays a substantial role in enabling China’s decision to build a naval base in Djibouti and how it will be utilized in accordance with its designated functions to protect China’s overseas interests at best.