Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Briefing paper
Mobilizing the Indo-Pacific infrastructure response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia
This policy brief makes several practical recommendations that would allow the trilateral partners to compete more effectively with China while simultaneously promoting more sustainable development outcomes.
Book
A cautious new approach: China's growing trilateral aid cooperation
This publication examines a little-known dimension of China’s foreign policy: trilateral aid cooperation.
Report
Competing to win: a coalition approach to countering the BRI
This report argues that the time has come for the United States and its allies and partners to form a coalition of like-minded states to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in order to counter the geopolitical advantages Beijing is accruing.
Report
The testing ground: China’s rising influence in Southeast Asia and regional responses
This paper examines China’s foreign policy toward Southeast Asia in the context of its neighborhood diplomacy more broadly. The paper also discusses China’s relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and individual Southeast Asian countries, focusing on Indonesia and Vietnam.
Report
China’s new concept of global governance and action plan for international cooperation
This paper argues that China and Canada share many views and interests regarding global governance, in particular on the issues of sustainable development and reforming the existing global governance institutions. However, the differences in ideology, domestic politics and stage of development may constrain the depth of cooperation on global governance between the two countries.