AidData has released the “Chasing China: Learning to Play by Beijing's Global Lending Rules” report, together with a massive dataset, that comprehensively tracks China’s lending and grant-giving activities worldwide. The scale and scope of Beijing’s portfolio is vastly larger than previously understood: $2.2 trillion of aid and credit spread across 200 countries in every region of the world.
AidData is publishing detailed and comprehensive information about China’s secretive lending and grant-giving activities in high-income countries like the US, the UK, Western European countries, Japan, and Australia, in addition to the world’s developing countries.
“The overall size of China’s portfolio is two-to-four times larger than previously published estimates suggest.”
The over three-hundred-page-long publication finds that more than three-quarters of China’s overseas lending operations now support projects and activities in upper-middle income countries and high-income countries.
“Much of the lending to wealthy countries is focused on critical infrastructure, critical minerals, and the acquisition of high-tech assets, like semiconductor companies.”
aiddata.org/blog/chinas-ma
docs.aiddata.org/reports/chasin
