Although little research exists on business engagement between French and Chinese companies in Africa, Thierry Pairault offers in this policy brief many significant examples of French and Chinese engagement. While African governments want to carry out infrastructure projects at the lowest cost,...

On June 21, 2021, the French public television channel France 2 aired a report in which it was stated that Montenegro, a heavily indebted nation, was at risk of "having to cede some of its land to China" as a result of its inability to pay back a loan for the construction of a highway. According...

Media reports that a China Eximbank contract for Montenegro’s expensive mountain highway required land as collateral reflect reporters’ lack of understanding of normal international legal practice. Reporters erroneously - and perhaps deliberately - presented a standard sovereign immunity...