"Chinese Soft Power in Africa: Production of Ambivalent Solidarities"
Maria Repnikova, Georgia State University
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"China's Drive for Connectivity in Southeast Asia: High-Speed Railway Development"
David Lampton, Johns Hopkins
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"Inventing the Maritime Silk Road"
Tansen Sen, NYU-Shanghai
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"Worst but for All the Rest: Why China Still Benefits from BRI Investments"
Jack Goldstone, George Mason University
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"Constructing Understandings of China: Chinese “Economic Statecraft” from a BRI(tish) Perspective"
Shaun Breslin, University of Warwick
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"Banking on the Belt and Road: Insights from a New Global Dataset of 13,427 Chinese Development Projects"
Bradley C. Parks, Ammar Malik, and Samantha Custer, Aiddata
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"The Volumetric Presence of China in Nepal"
Galen Murton, James Madison University
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
Talk 4: "China, East Asia, and the Reconfiguration of a Multinodal World"
With Brantly Womack and Evelyn Goh
"China and the Re-Centering of East Asia"
With Brantly Womack and Wang Gungwu
Talk 1: Introduction and China’s Premodern Centricity
"Central Asia's Perceptions of the BRI: Hopes & Concerns"
Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the new Geopolitics of Eurasia"
Daniel Markey, Johns Hopkins University
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"An American International Lawyer Considers China’s Belt & Road"
David Day, Belt & Road Task Force, ABA
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project.
"The Geopolitics of International Trade in Southeast Asia"
Kerem Cosar, University of Virginia
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project.
"The American Strategy of Promoting Development Around the World"
Harry Harding, University Professor, Batten School
"Assessing the Politics and Economics of China's Belt and Road Initiative"
Rush Doshi, Brookings Institute
"The Role of the Belt and Road Initiative in China's Foreign Policy"
"Common Transport Infrastructure: Estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative"
Francois de Soyres, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
"Big Earth Data for Environment Change within the Belt and Road Region"
• Howard Epstein (UVA)
• Concluding Remarks: Krishan Kumar (UVA), Joseph C. Miller (UVA)
"More Competing than Complementary: American Assessments of China's Belt and Road Initiative"
Harry Harding (UVA)
"The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa"
Ching Kwan Lee (UCLA)
"Complementing and Competing Visions of China's Belt and Road Initiative"
A Conference at the University of Virginia
Brantly Womack (UVA): "China and the Re-Centering of Africa"
"Fanfare and Dismay: China's Belt and Road Initiative throughout Uzbek Media"
Shawn Lyons (UVA)
"Chinese Migrants in Africa: Grassroots Encounters between Africa and China in the BRI Era"
Yoon Jung Park (SAIS, Johns Hopkins University)
"The Belt and Road Initiative: What Is It?"
Xiao Ren (Fudan University)
"Development Boon or Trojan Horse? The BRI in South Asia: The View from India"
John Echeverri-Gent (UVA)
"The Long Path to One Belt One Road: History and Environment in Sino-Southeast Asia, 600-1600 CE"
Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell)
Panel Discussion with François Jullien, Scott Lash, and Shiqiao Li
"Minxin Xiangtong ⺠心相通 and People-to-People (P2P) Relations along the New Silk Roads"
Sophia Kidd, Sichuan University
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project.