China's rise has, in the consensus view of most international relations scholars, fundamentally changed South Asia. The old, ...

A sign in Sop Ruak, Thailand, marking the point where the borders of Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand converge, July 28, 2020. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Southeast Asia has become a hub for ...

At a conclave of the Communist Party’s most senior officials that ended on October 23rd he warned that over the next five ...

Southeast Asia is vital for China. Well-known international relations scholar Yan Xuetong has stated that the region will develop economically, politically, and militarily in the future, surpassing ...

A new map from the Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas) documents the lessons from cases of local engagement with projects in the Global South involving Chinese investments. The aim of the ...

When Lawrence Wong visited China on his first trip as Singapore’s prime minister in June, he delivered a warning: economic restrictions are futile in an interconnected world. The more one country ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Over the past fifteen years, China has increasingly become the dominant military ...

Friday marks the first anniversary of the Chancay Port in Peru, a flagship project of Belt and Road cooperation between China ...

China’s June 2025 treaty with the five Central Asian states aims to institutionalise the Belt and Road Initiative, promoting connectivity, trade and digital cooperation while establishing a long-term ...

In 2021, responding to widespread misgivings about the BRI, Mr Xi declared that it would shift to a new “small but beautiful” approach ...