When China wanted to set up its answer to the World Bank, it picked Jin Liqun—a veteran financier with experience at the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, China’s ministry of finance and the ...

CDT noted last month that recent Chinese naval exercises around Australia had sparked a spike in comments on Chinese social media advocating the conquest of Australia. While some may have been a joke, ...

The Federal Government is seeking to deepen Chinese investment and cooperation in infrastructure development, technology transfer, and youth capacity building, it has emerged. Two key areas of ...

On July 1, a cargo train from western China reached Chancay, Peru — a symbolic milestone in Beijing’s quieter but sharper new global infrastructure strategy. As the Belt and Road Initiative evolves, ...

Over the past two decades, Beijing has financed and built at least 15 parliament buildings in African nations. These projects carry hidden costs that extend far beyond their initial construction.

This paper was written in November 2024 prior to the inauguration of President Trump, and as such does not reflect or account for the changes that have occurred in the development space since then due ...

Cloud computing has changed the status of network hardware like servers and data storage from a common asset of organizations or companies to a type of infrastructure. With this wide-reaching change ...