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Commentary
Five Things to Watch in 2021
December 22, 2020 | Matthew P. Goodman, Stephanie Segal, Jonathan E. Hillman CSIS Economics Program experts Matthew P. Goodman, Stephanie Segal, and Jonathan E. Hillman look ahead to the coming year and highlight five issues in international economic affairs they will be tracking in 2021.

Commentary
Reintroducing America to the World
December 7, 2020 | Jonathan E. Hillman As the incoming Biden administration reintroduces America to the world, the words it chooses can build domestic support for U.S. foreign policy, strengthen partnerships abroad, and more effectively compete with China.

Commentary
Don’t Let China Greenwash Its Belt and Road
October 8, 2020 | Jonathan E. Hillman Xi Jinping's promise of carbon neutrality by 2060 will amount to little if the Belt and Road Initiative continues exporting China’s environmental challenges globally. China’s poor environmental record abroad presents a strategic opportunity for the United States to seize.

Book
The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century
September 28, 2020 | Jonathan E. Hillman Taking readers for a journey along China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Jonathan E. Hillman warns that China is repeating the mistakes of previous great powers and reveals the perils of Beijing’s global push toward the center of everything.

Report
Becoming a Chinese Client State: The Case of Serbia
September 24, 2020 | Heather A. Conley, Jonathan E. Hillman, Maesea McCalpin, Donatienne Ruy This CSIS report examines Chinese economic activities in Serbia to shed light on China’s political and economic objectives, its mechanisms for influence, and the implications of its activities, including a second wave of digital infrastructure projects.

Commentary
The Forgotten Power of Trade
August 6, 2020 | Jonathan E. Hillman The world’s largest economy has largely forgotten how to use economic power. As it leans heavily on the stick, the United States must rediscover the power of the carrot in foreign affairs.

Report
China and Russia: Economic Unequals
July 15, 2020 | Jonathan E. Hillman Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are attempting to put economics at the center of their strategic partnership, but a closer look at four dimensions of China-Russia connectivity reveals a partnership of unequals that will become even more lopsided in the future.

Report
Hidden Harbors: China’s State-backed Shipping Industry
July 8, 2020 | Jude Blanchette, Jonathan E. Hillman, Maesea McCalpin China's state-owned and private companies are increasingly dominant across the global maritime supply chain, aided by an opaque system of formal and informal government support that is unrivaled in both its scale and scope.

Commentary
Taking the Higher Road: U.S. Global Infrastructure Strategy One Year Later
April 27, 2020 | Matthew P. Goodman, Daniel F. Runde, Jonathan E. Hillman, Sundar R. Ramanujam One year ago, CSIS made key recommendations that would give United States a more leading role in global infrastructure development. This new commentary looks at how those recommendations are not only still relevant—but more urgent—in light of Covid-19.

Report
China’s 'Hub-and-Spoke' Strategy in the Balkans
April 27, 2020 | Heather A. Conley, Jonathan E. Hillman, Donatienne Ruy, Maesea McCalpin This report assesses the strategic implications of Chinese economic activities in seven Western Balkan countries using original data collected by CSIS.

Commentary
China’s Digital Silk Road after the Coronavirus
April 13, 2020 | Jude Blanchette, Jonathan E. Hillman China’s technology ambitions appeared imperiled by Covid-19, but the pandemic is already providing new opportunities for China’s rise as a technology power and global provider of digital infrastructure.

Report
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor at Five
April 2, 2020 | Jonathan E. Hillman, Maesea McCalpin The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has struggled to deliver its promises, according to a new CSIS dataset.

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