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“China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has two interconnected goals: increasing China’s diplomatic clout and expanding the presence of Chinese companies overseas. However, contrary to the intuitive notion that good diplomacy creates economic opportunities, […] Our results indicate that in states with more democratic institutions, host government joining of the BRI is negatively associated with infrastructure contracts for Chinese companies, pointing to blowback in democracies against the BRI.”
In this article for International Studies Quarterly, Prof. Andrea Ghiselli (Head of Research at ChinaMed; University of Exeter) and Prof. Pippa Morgan (Duke Kunshan University) explore the relationship between infrastructure contracts awarded to Chinese firms and democratic institutions in host states.
