The second cold war: US-China competition for centrality in infrastructure, digital, production, and finance networks

S Schindler, I Alami, J DiCarlo, N Jepson, S Rolf… - …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Relations between the US and China have deteriorated to their lowest point since their
rapprochement in the 1970s. To make sense of contemporary geopolitics, our objective in …

Why the West's alternative to China's international infrastructure financing is failing

S Hameiri, L Jones - European Journal of International …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
As geopolitical rivalry intensifies, Western states have moved to compete with China's Belt
and Road Initiative (BRI). However, the mobilisation of funds for global infrastructure …

Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development

I Alami, H Whiteside, AD Dixon… - … and Planning A …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The theme issue 'Making Space for the New State Capitalism'brings together insights from
critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series of papers …

State de-financialisation through incorporating local government bonds in the budgetary process in China

Z Li, F Wu, F Zhang - Journal of Economic Geography, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In China, state-led financialisation through local government financing platforms resulted in
a surge in local government debt. To manage financial risk, the central state introduced local …

Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks

F Pan, C Fang, Y Guo - Political Geography, 2024 - Elsevier
The deterioration of Sino-US relations in recent years has led to a financial decoupling
between the world's two largest economies, impacting Chinese companies listed on US …

Does digital credit alleviate household income vulnerability?

H Wang, X Du, C Ge, W Wu - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
As a result of various internal and external risks and unstable expectations, the income
vulnerability of households in various countries has come to the forefront, weakening the …

Beyond the spatial fix: towards a finance-sensitive reading of the Belt and Road in Serbia

IT Liu - Area Development and Policy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been theorised as a spatial fix to China's
overaccumulation problem, and as such, an implicitly productivist endeavour. This article …

Conceptualising Chinese transnational infrastructure projects in Europe and beyond

F Schaefer, G Mohan - Progress in Human Geography, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Chinese actors have emerged as major funders and developers of large-scale transnational
infrastructure projects in Europe and beyond. Despite this profound shift, geographers have …

China's national oil companies going global and coming home: State–firm nexus, global financial networks, and geopolitical risks

Y Guo, J Poon, C Wang, Y Yang - Geoforum, 2023 - Elsevier
Both the “going global” strategy and the Belt and Road Initiative have prompted Chinese
companies to carry out overseas investment and global financing. China's three major …

Building state centrality through state selective financialization: Reconfiguring the land reserve system in China

Y Feng, F Wu, F Zhang - Environment and Planning A …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The state has been pivotal in both facilitating financialization and dealing with its
consequences, through which the state itself has also been reshaped. This paper proposes …