...Justin V. Hastings; Yaohui Wang The coping strategies that small Chinese firms operating in North Korea have chosen involve insinuating themselves into North Korean political and social networks, and structuring their investments so as to minimize their exposure to North Korean infrastructure...

...Jinrui Xi The Chinese government inspects villages to encourage economic development and foster income equality. It is thus more likely to inspect model villages, villages hosting investments, and poorer villages. Empirical tests with data from 961 Chinese villages confirm these propositions...

..., and identifies the rationales that may enhance or diminish the initiative’s success. © 2017 by The Regents of the University of California 2017 Maritime Silk Road China Southeast Asia investment trade South China Sea CHIEN-PENG CHUNG AND THOMAS J. VOON China s Maritime Silk Road Initiative...

... of the University of California 2016 India Modi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) investment Pakistan CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT India in 2015 A Year of Modi s Prime Ministership ABSTRACT While India s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party lost elections in Delhi and Bihar, and its government failed to implement any...

...Jae Cheol Kim This article explores the burgeoning of Chinese investment in North Korea. By drawing on various materials including press reports and official data from both China and South Korea, the paper suggests that this rapid growth serves China's general policy goals toward North Korea...

...John Ravenhill Analysis of data on flows and stocks refutes the argument that China and Southeast Asia are engaged in a zero-sum competition for foreign investment. Although Southeast Asia appears to have lost out to Chinese-manufactured exports in global markets, this has been balanced...