(China Daily, Beijing, 11 April 2023) Some of China's large State-owned commercial banks and foreign lenders have continuously consolidated the Belt and Road Initiative and expanded into new areas of business to align with China's new development pattern and advance the country's high-level...
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2022/12/31
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
(Xinhua, Beijing, 26 December 2022) China's only policy-oriented insurer specializing in export credit insurance reported steady business growth in the first 11 months of 2022. The China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation, or SINOSURE, served about 179,000 clients in the January-November...
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2022/09/29
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Sinosure
Issue: Climate Change
(China Dialogue, London (Beijing?), 22 September 2020) Reform of investment and financing models still needed in order to better support green transitions. On 21 September 2021, China’s president, Xi Jinping, told the UN General Assembly via video link that China would increase support for...
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2021/12/31
Country: China, Italy, Japan, Russia
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Moscow, 30 November 2021) Russian gas producer Novatek (NVTK.MM) said on Tuesday its Arctic LNG 2 plant has signed loan agreements with foreign and Russian banks worth 9.5 billion euros ($10.8 billion), securing necessary external financing for the project. Earlier this year, Novatek...
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2021/12/31
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Sinosure
Issue: Debt
(Global Trade Review, London, 15 December 2021) China’s commitments to financing in Africa are shifting away from giant infrastructure developments and towards developing stronger trade flows and commercial investments, analysts say. At the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (Focac) in late...
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2021/08/31
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
Issue: Human Rights
(Global Trade Review, London, 11 August 2021) Chinese banks have a “dismal” rate of engagement with concerns about the human rights impacts of their overseas investments, a new report says. The London-based...
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2021/08/31
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Sinosure
Issue: Renewables
(China Daily, Beijing, 9 August 2021) The Chinese government issued a policy on July 16 encouraging Chinese businesses to integrate green development through overseas investment and cooperation. The document, titled "Green Development Guidelines for Overseas Investment and Cooperation", was...
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2021/04/29
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
Issue: Debt
(News Ghana, Accra, 9 April 2021) These two articles examine China’s investment policy in Africa that should be read to learn the truth about China’s lending to the continent. One, is a briefing paper from China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) entitled, Twenty Years of Data on China’s Africa...
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2021/03/31
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Debt, Transparency
(EXIM and Chatham House, 2019 and 2020) The U.S. 2019 approved reauthorization of EXIM included a goal of reserving not less than 20% of the...
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2021/03/30
Country: China, Japan
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing
(Global Trade Review, London, 3 March 2021) Overseas energy financing from Chinese policy banks plummeted last year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report says, as pressure builds on Beijing to drop its zest for coal projects in developing countries. According to data from Boston...
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2021/02/28
Country: China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Global Development Policy Center, Boston, 12 February 2021) In 2020, China’s two development banks with global operations — the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM) — recorded $4.6 billion of overseas energy sector finance. This represents a decrease of 43...
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2020/12/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Sinosure
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, World Trade Organization
(The Hill, Washington, 17 December 2020) [An example of political influences on EXIM vs the OECD's purely economic free market level playing field.] One year ago, under President Trump’s leadership, Congress came together across party lines to re-authorize EXIM, our nation’s export...
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2020/10/28
Country: China, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Fox News - Opinion, Washington, 17 October 2020) Kimberly Reed: The latest manifestation of China’s economic aggression is the increasing use of export financing to distort fair and free-market competition. In 2019 alone, communist China provided three times the export financing of the next-...
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2020/10/28
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
Issue: Debt
(Agence France-Presse, Washington, 22 October 2020) Ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) declared Zambia's government in default on Wednesday, October 21, after the African nation missed an interest payment. The mineral-rich southern African country has seen its debt surge to nearly $...
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2020/09/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Sinosure
(EXIM, Washington, 9 September 2020) EXIM announced today the appointment of 17 members to its Advisory Committee, and establishment of a new EXIM Advisory Committee Subcommittee on Strategic Competition with...
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