Institutes and Centers Institute for Emerging Market Studies 249 Trade and Investment under China's Belt and Road Initiative - Implications for Hong Kong Supervisor: TRITTO Angela / IEMS Co-supervisor: PARK Albert Francis / IEMS Student: JIANG Yuxuan / ECOF Course: UROP1100, Spring Recent years have witnessed the significant effect of the Belt and Road Initiative on global economic and infrastructure development, and its impact on different fields has also become a topic of close attention. This project focuses on the energy sector and seeks to examine factors that motivate Chinese energy firms to invest in Southeast Asian countries under the Belt and Road Initiative. This report presents a preliminary selection of variables after the literature review process. The results show there are 5 dimensions with 22 potential push and pull factors affecting green and black energy investments, which are worth further data collection and regression analysis performance. Trade and Investment under China's Belt and Road Initiative - Implications for Hong Kong Supervisor: TRITTO Angela / IEMS Co-supervisor: PARK Albert Francis / IEMS Student: WU Hongsen / GBUS Course: UROP2100, Spring This progress report explains the objectives, methodology, and results of the construction of the first dataset that maps the flow of Chinese foreign direct investments (FDI) in Chinese overseas industrial parks in ASEAN countries. Through this dataset, we provide descriptive evidence explaining cross-country variation of FDI, as well as the role of state-owned enterprises provincial governments in facilitating such FDI. The results provide insights for further studies on the models and impacts of Chinese overseas industrial parks under the Belt and Road Initiative. Trade and Investment under China's Belt and Road Initiative - Implications for Hong Kong Supervisor: TRITTO Angela / IEMS Co-supervisor: PARK Albert Francis / IEMS Student: JIANG Yuxuan / ECOF Course: UROP1000, Summer Chinese medical aid and foreign direct investments are two main flows direction China’s current development, especially under the COVID-19 pandemic situation. With this large-scale foreign assistance and investments for decades, what attitudes the other countries take towards China gradually become a topic worthy of further investigation. This project gathered the voting records in United Nations Human Rights Council to reflect countries' attitudes in international organizations. Through the process of literature review, data collection and analysis of key variables, the researcher explored the effect of natural resources on voting decisions is not as significant as which on foreign direct investments, and the alignments inside different country blocs were robust.
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