Hot Girl Briefing

Sources for Keep It BRI – China’s Lending Style

Sources for this episode include:

Anna Gelpern, Sebastian Horn, Scott Morris, Brad Parks, & Christoph Trebesch in “How China Lends: A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts with Foreign Governments” from AidData
Deborah Brautigam in “AID ‘WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS’: CHINESE FOREIGN AID AND DEVELOPMENT FINANCE MEET THE OECD-DAC AID REGIME” from the Journal of International Development
Ammar A. Malik, Bradley Parks, Brooke Russell, Joyce Jiahui Lin, Katherine Walsh, Kyra Solomon, Sheng Zhang, Thai-Binh Elston, & Seth Goodman in “Banking on the Belt and Road: Insights from a new global dataset of 13,427 Chinese development projects” from AidData
Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C Parks, Austin M Strange, & Michael J Tierney in “Apples and Dragon Fruits: The Determinants of Aid and Other Forms of State Financing from China to Africa” from AidData
Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri in “Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’” from Chatham House

Sources for this episode include the following:

Prosper Africa in “About Prosper Africa”
Power Africa in “Power Africa Annual Report 2021”
USAID in “USAID Africa Trade and Investment Fact Sheet”
Office of the United States Trade Representative in “African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)”
Witney Schneidman and Joel Wiegert in “Competing in Africa: China, the European Union, and the United States” from Brookings
Maryla Maliszewska, Michele Ruta, Guillermo Arenas, Paul Brenton, Cesar Calderon, Roberto Echandi, Israel Osorio Rodarte, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, Maria Filipa Seara e Pereira, & Yulia Vnukova in “The African Continental Free Trade Area” from The World Bank
David Thomas in “What you need to know about the African Continental Free Trade Area” from African Business

Sources for this episode include:

The Central Intelligence Agency in “Japan” from the CIA World Factbook
“GDP Ranked by Country 2022” from World Population Review
Gabriella Sierra hosting “Japan’s Population Problem” from the Council on Foreign Relations Why it matters
Daniella Demetriou in “How the Japanese are putting an end to extreme work weeks” from BBC
Kelsey Carolan in “Russia breaks off WWII treaty talks with Japan after invasion sanctions” from The Hill
Michelle Ye Hee Lee in “Russia’s invasion prompts more assertive foreign policy from Japan” from The Washington Post
“History of the Cherry Trees” from the National Park Service
Julian Ryall in “Japan proposes four-day working week to improve work-life balance” from DW
Kimberly Amadeo in “Most Favored Nation Status: Pros and Cons” from the balance
Caroline Castrillon in “Why Companies Should Consider A Four-Day Workweek” from Forbes

Sources for this episode include:

Hyeyoon (Alyssa) Choi in “How colonial-era debt helped shape Haiti’s poverty and political unrest” from abc News
Rocio Cara Labrador and Diana Roy in “Haiti’s Troubled Path to Development” from the Council on Foreign Relations
Paul J. Angelo and David Gevarter in “The Assassination of Hatian President Jovenel Moise: What to Know” from the Council on Foreign Relations
Freedom House in “Haiti”
The Central Intelligence Agency in “Haiti” from the CIA World Factbook

We apologize that this did not get posted sooner! (Sometimes it really is true that it just got sent to the drafts 😉 )

Our main source for this week was from James M. Lindsay at the Council on Foreign Relations in “Five Good Foreign Policy News Stories in 2021”

One of our previous guests on the pod has had an article of his released! Check out Tyler Murray’s article here at The Transatlantic Policy Center!

Sources for this episode include:

Andreea Brinza in “Putin’s War Has Killed China’s Eurasian Railway Dreams” from Foreign Policy
Elliot Wilson in “War in Ukraine threatens BRI, disrupts China-Europe rail freight” from Euromoney
Chris Devonshire Ellis in “”How Damaging Are Russian Sanctions On China-EU Rail Trade And The Belt & Road Initiative ?” from Silk Road Briefing

Sources for this episode include the following:

Oliver Knox with research by Caroline Anders in “China’s ‘unsettled’ by Ukraine but still tight with Russia, U.S. officials say” from The Washington Post
James Lee in “China ‘knew about Russian invasion’ as Xi ‘asked Putin to DELAY war until after Olympics'” from Express
Charlie D’agata, Justine Redman, and Haley Ott in “Kyiv residents say they’re “not ready to give up” as they’re given guns to help defend their city” from CBS News
Alasdair Sandford & Euronews with AP, AFP in “Ukraine war: Thousands evacuated from Sumy arrive safely as Russia offers new ceasefire” by euronews
Jennifer Elias and Dan Mangan in “Twitter removes tweets by Russian Embassy in United Kingdom for denying ‘violent events’ in Ukraine” from CNBC
Catherine Belton in “Russia will stop ‘in a moment’ if Ukraine meets terms – Kremlin” from Reuters
Multiple authors and articles compiled within the Post Staff Report in “Russia-Ukraine latest: Over 1,200 bodies removed from streets of Mariupol as siege continues” from the New York Post
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs official Twitter account
Gordon Lubold, Nancy A. Youssef and Alan Cullison in “Russia Recruiting Syrians for Urban Combat in Ukraine, U.S. Officials Say” from The Wall Street Journal

Sources for this episode include the following:

Gordon Lubold, Nancy A. Youssef, and Alan Cullison in “Russia Recruiting Syrians for Urban Combat in Ukraine, U.S. Officials Say” from the Wall Street Journal
Gareth Jones and Andrew Heavens in “Explainer: From stability to turmoil – what’s going on in Kazakhstan” from Reuters
Andrew Grant in “Crossing Khorgos: Soft power, security, and suspect loyalties at the Sino-Kazakh boundary” from Political Geography
We will be publishing a link to Tyler Murray’s upcoming article that will be released on March 8th, 2022 as soon as that link is available in a subsequent post as well so please be on the lookout!

Sources for this episode include the following:

The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States in “China: Wang Yi Talks About Resumption of Diplomatic Relations Between China and Burkina Faso” from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Antonio Hsiang in “US-Taiwan ties under Tsai Ing-wen are at their best in decades, but that may not be enough to prevent diplomatic isolation” from the South China Morning Post
“China hopes to ink BRI cooperation documents with Burkina Faso soon: Chinese FM” from Xinhua