Lecture
Chinese Development Finance in a Shifting Global Order: Research Approaches and Policy Implications
- Date
- Thursday 16 April 2026
- Time
- Series
- LIAS Lunch Talk Series
- Location
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Herta Mohr
Witte Singel 27A
2311 BG Leiden
Abstract
Jue will present findings from a recent report co-authored with Ruben Gonzalez Vicente, Chinese Development Finance in a Shifting Global Order. The study provides a comprehensive analysis of China’s overseas development finance over the past two decades, drawing on multilingual primary and secondary sources. It highlights the distinctively commercial orientation of China’s overseas development finance, contrasting it with both domestic development finance within China and that provided internationally by non-Chinese institutions.
The report maps the complex institutional architecture underpinning China’s development finance system, encompassing actors ranging from top-level political authorities and ministerial economic agencies to policy banks and private corporations. It also examines China’s engagement with multilateral development banks, emphasizing the strategic implications of its expanding role in the global development finance landscape. At the project level, the study identifies key operational challenges, including portfolio composition, contracting practices, policy space in borrower/host countries, debt sustainability, environmental impacts, and geopolitical considerations. In this talk, Jue will focus in particular on the research design and methodology underpinning the study, as well as its broader policy implications.
About the speaker
Jue Wang is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. She is a scholar of the Chinese economy and Global Political Economy, with expertise in development finance, international organisations, technology policies, and global governance. Her research has been published in International Relations, Chinese Journal of International Politics, International Affairs, and Chinese Political Science Review, among others. She is also a frequent media commentator on China and international political economy.