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  • 1 Aug 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • China
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • United Nations

    Unpacking China’s Global Development Initiative

    Mercedes Page
    Red flags should be flying about Beijing’s latest challenge to the international development agenda.
  • 7 Apr 2022
    • Pacific Islands
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • Australia
    • China

    Economic diplomacy: Priorities shift amid a budget aid boost

    Greg Earl
    The IMF has given Chinese spending a tick as Australia tries to muscle up in the Pacific.
  • 30 Sep 2021
    • China
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • Pacific Islands

    China’s declining Pacific aid presence

    Jonathan Pryke , Alexandre Dayant
    Beijing is becoming less generous. New data suggests 2018 was a high water mark for China’s aid to the region.
  • 5 Feb 2021
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • China
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative

    Messages from China’s third white paper on foreign aid

    Denghua Zhang
    What's changed, and what hasn’t?
  • 20 Dec 2019
    • Pacific Islands
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • Australia
    • China

    Little to gain from linking Australia’s aid with China in the Pacific

    Michael Fullilove , Jonathan Pryke
    Canberra is the biggest donor in the neighbourhood and has regional goals very different from Beijing.
  • 13 Aug 2019
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • Australia and the Pacific

    Does Chinese aid make Australians more generous?

    Jonathan Pryke , Terence Wood , Christopher Hoy
    A survey finds surprising results when Australians are asked to consider Chinese aid in the Pacific.
  • 15 Oct 2018
    • Pacific Islands
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Chinese Foreign Aid

    Reconciling with China in the Pacific

    Alexandre Dayant , Euan Moyle
    To overcome suspicion, Australia should work to reshape the multilateral system for better global collaboration on aid.
  • 2 Mar 2018
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • China

    China’s loans and the debt dilemma

    Hannah Ryder
    Is Beijing making living with debt easier for poor nations, or easier to default on?
  • 12 Jan 2018
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • China

    Understanding China’s approach to aid

    Merriden Varrall
    A supposed ‘white elephant’ might actually be a source of national pride.
  • 11 Jan 2018
    • Chinese Foreign Aid

    The bad – and good – of China’s aid in the Pacific

    Jonathan Pryke
    Australia's criticism of Beijing could be seen as an attack on Pacific nations themselves.
  • 28 Sep 2016
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • Australia and the Pacific

    Mapping Pacific aid: Facebook, India and money laundering

    Danielle Cave
  • 5 Sep 2016
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • Chinese Foreign Aid

    Witnessing an opaque Pacific power shift

    Danielle Cave
  • 4 Mar 2015
    • Chinese Foreign Aid

    Quick comment: Philippa Brant on China's aid to the Pacific

    Sam Roggeveen
  • 2 Mar 2015
    • Chinese Foreign Aid

    A new tool to examine Chinese aid in the Pacific

    Stephanie Dunstan
  • 27 Oct 2014
    • China and the Pacific
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • Fiji

    Chinese aid in Fiji coming under new pressures

    Philippa Brant
  • 11 Jul 2014
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • Emerging Donors

    China's aid white paper: What's changed?

    Philippa Brant
  • 17 Oct 2013
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • West Asia

    China's aid program: Why the numbers matter

    Guest Blogger
  • 31 May 2013
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Chinese Foreign Aid

    In conversation: Philippa Brant on China's aid to the Pacific

    Stephanie Dunstan
  • 2 May 2013
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • West Asia

    Chinese aid to Africa: A detective story

    Guest Blogger

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