Global-China Tracker 07-03-2019

NEWS
Belt and Road Initiative
Silk Road Fund Buys 49% Stake in Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power Unit (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Chinese-funded power plant in Bangladesh delayed after workers clash (Reuters)
New Chinese Ambassador Vows to Seek ‘Practical Cooperation’ with Myanmar on BRI Projects (The Irrawaddy)
中国进出口银行与英国出口融资署签署《关于出口信贷领域的合作谅解备忘录》(Xinhua)
Preah Sihanouk master plan discussed (Khmer Times)
China could build 30 'Belt and Road' nuclear reactors by 2030: official (Reuters)
Sri Lanka seeks US$1 billion loan from China as it struggles to recover from Easter Sunday attacks (South China Morning Post)
China, Russia, Mongolia meet to reinforce trilateral tourism ties (Belt and Road Portal)
China No Match for Japan in Southeast Asia Infrastructure Race (Bloomberg)
Timor-Leste rejects report it is taking $16bn loan from China's Exim bank for gas project (The Guardian)
China & Latin America and the Caribbean 
Chinese company BYD increases operations in Brazil (MacauHub)
China's May soybean imports from top supplier Brazil fall amid swine fever woes (Reuters)
Brazil's Petrobras reevaluating partnership with China's CNPC: newspaper (Reuters)
进出口银行融资支持的厄瓜多尔500千伏输变电项目竣工(Xinhua)
Activists renew calls for controversial US$50 billion Nicaragua Canal project to be cancelled as Chinese tycoon’s cash runs dry (South China Morning Post)
China & Africa 
GE, PowerChina Set to Build $4 Billion Zambia-Zimbabwe Plant (Bloomberg)
PowerChina to Build Two Hydropower Plants in Congo, Partners Say (Bloomberg)
Ethiopia govt signs agreement with Spanish, Chinese firms for 12 solar energy projects (Devdiscourse)
China says Africa projects should be sustainable, denounces criticism (Reuters)
国开行：强化中非银联体平台作用推动中非金融合作(国家开发银行)

IN-DEPTH STUDIES AND ARTICLES
Belt and Road Economics: Opportunities and Risk of Transport Corridors (World Bank)
China and the world: Inside the dynamics of a changing relationship (McKinsey & Company)
African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance (Journal of Development Economics)
“Going global” and FDI inflows in China: “One Belt & One Road” initiative as a quasi‐natural experiment (The World Economy)