China continued to be a global leader of investment in clean energy projects in 2017, defying an overall slowdown in Chinese overseas investment as the country further positioned itself to dominate in new energy technologies.

This paper is a detailed analysis of the change in China’s political and policy making system as well as the emergence of key economic policy makers during the Xi Jinping era. It also explores how policy is made in China’s complexed and multilayered system through a study of the development and implementation of the Belt...

This paper will discuss just some to the issues that this audacious policy, with the potential to revolutionise global trade, raises.

‘One Belt, One Road', or yidai yilu in Chinese, is on everyone’s lips these days. The ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ is Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy initiative. First announced in 2013, the land-based “Silk Road Economic Belt” and its maritime twin, the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” are ambitious plans aimed at placing...