1: A fantastic new study in our @CarnegieEndow #ChinaLocalGlobal initiative. @julianagj explores how national, provincial and corporate players in Argentina pushed Chinese investors to support the country's energy transition and help revitalize their grid. carnegieendowment.org/2021/12/22/how…
2: Her paper closely examines Chinese investment and loan activities in Argentina’s solar and wind power sectors. An adaptive partnership has evolved among key actors and institutions, strengthening alignment between Argentina's own development objectives and Chinese investments.
3: She also explores how Argentinian players can better assess and classify whether putative Chinese projects actually support Argentina’s economic growth and sustainable development needs, especially through technology transfers and/or joint development of energy technologies.
4: #ChinaLocalGlobal is a seven-region initiative at @CarnegieEndow supported by @FordFoundation. It explores how China extends its global influence not just by exporting a putative "China model" but by adapting to local forms, norms, and practices, while leveraging local actors.
5: Be sure to check out some of the earlier papers in the project. For instance, @RYellinek explored how Chinese players, to bolster their influence in Israel, have leveraged local Hebrew language media to calibrate their messages for Israeli audiences. carnegieendowment.org/2021/10/27/how…
6: In a pathbreaking and notably counter-consensus paper, @dvanderkley and @nivayautszyan show how China's economic profile in Central Asia increasingly means investments in value-added industry, local hires, and upskilling. Locals are driving this shift. carnegieendowment.org/2021/10/15/how…
7: In Ecuador, @cquiliconi and Pablo Rodriguez Vasco explore how Chinese miners' efforts to leverage local players undercut and divided Indigenous opposition in unsustainable ways. Ultimately, this backfired on them. carnegieendowment.org/2021/09/20/chi…
8: In the Philippines, @alvincamba showed how Chinese players accommodated Philippine ruling elites concerned with political expediency in sidestepping social and environmental safeguards on infrastructure projects. carnegieendowment.org/2021/06/15/how…
9: In Pakistan, @KatAdeney and @FilippoBoni1 explored bilateral negotiating records to show how Pakistani actors have wielded agency in important ways, while Chinese actors at times have accommodated key Pakistani demands. carnegieendowment.org/2021/05/24/how…
10: In Brazil, @AAbdenur, @mafolly, and @msantoro1978 show how Chinese-funded railway projects in the Amazon were profoundly shaped by dynamic institutional learning on both sides and sharp public debates in Brazil about environmental sustainability. carnegieendowment.org/2021/08/04/wha…
11: In Pakistan again, Muhammad Tayyab Safdar shows how Chinese inroads have been built on the diversification of ties to *local* stakeholders, notably in the education, media, and energy sectors. carnegieendowment.org/2021/06/02/loc…
12: And in Chile, @FranciscoUrdin explored how medical and equipment supplies during the pandemic have come from a diverse cast of Chinese players with local experience in Chile. They adapted to Chile’s unique system of emergency and disaster management. carnegieendowment.org/2021/04/06/chi…
13: We're working across seven regions: Africa, Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, the Pacific, South Asia, and Southeast Asia—exploring adaptive Chinese strategies that work within local realities. Papers and multimedia here: carnegieendowment.org/specialproject…
14: Stay tuned for exciting new papers in the new year on adaptive local and Chinese strategies and interactions in all seven regions, including case studies of Myanmar, Benin, Brazil, Algeria, Vanuatu and Saudi Arabia. We'll also have multimedia products and strategic convening. 
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