The Belt and Road initiative, recently embarked on by China, aims to improve cross-border infrastructure in order to … reduce transportation costs across a massive geographical area between China and Europe. The authors estimate how much trade … true for eastern Europe and Central Asia and, to a lesser extent, south-east Asia. In contrast, if China were to seek to …

substitutes for EU exports on the Russian market. This means that an increase in China-Russia economic cooperation should have a … negative impact on European exports. The authors simulate a scenario in which trade tariffs between Russia and China are … sectors in Europe will be more affected by the increasing economic links between China and Russia, and finds that electronic …

With the trade conflict between the United States and China bringing China-US strategic competition into the open, the …-led trade war against China and its immediate consequences for China, the US and the EU. Although protectionism can never be … growth enhancing, European companies could see gains if the trade confrontation between China and the US ends up reducing …

China’s increasingly important role in the global economy has transformed the nature of global competition and reshaped … very large trade surplus. We address whether China is an increasingly relevant competitor for Europe in third markets, and … in relative exporting prices). Our results show that the degree of competition between China and the EU in Latin America …