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China’s Outbound Direct Investment: Risks and Remedies

September 23, 2013

A Tiger Hunt in China's Oil Patch

September 13, 2013, Erica S. Downs

China-Middle East Energy Relations

June 6, 2013, Erica S. Downs

How the China Development Bank is Rewriting the Rules of Finance: Debt, Oil and Influence

April 18, 2013

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Money Talks: China-Russia Energy Relations after Xi Jinping’s Visit to Moscow

April 1, 2013, Erica S. Downs

Lifting the Veil: Book Review of China’s Superbank

March 2013, Erica S. Downs

Review of "The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-Stained Coal"

February 21, 2013, Erica S. Downs

China Buys into Afghanistan

February 21, 2013, Erica S. Downs

China, Iran and the Nexen Deal

October 2012, Erica S. Downs

China's Oil Investment Is Not a Threat

October 10, 2012, Erica S. Downs

Getting China to Turn on Iran

July 19, 2012, Erica S. Downs

China’s Oil Cutbacks May Be Only Temporary

July 2, 2012, Erica S. Downs

Sanctions on Iran: Implications for Energy Security

June 29, 2012

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U.S. and China Headed for Fight Over Iran Oil? Not So Fast.

June 18, 2012

Picking Apart Nationalist Rhetoric Around China’s New Oil Rig

May 11, 2012, Erica S. Downs

Business and Politics in China: The Oil Executive Reshuffle of 2011

February 8, 2012, Erica S. Downs and Michal Meidan

U.S. Cooperation with China on Iran

January 19, 2012, Erica S. Downs

China Development Bank's Oil Loans: Pursuing Policy and Profit

December 9, 2011, Erica S. Downs

Is China the New North? Assessing the Impact of Chinese Trade with Latin America

August 17, 2011

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China–Gulf Energy Relations

August 1, 2011, Erica S. Downs

New Interest Groups in Chinese Foreign Policy

April 13, 2011, Erica S. Downs

Inside China, Inc: China Development Bank’s Cross-Border Energy Deals

March 21, 2011, Erica S. Downs

Getting China to Sanction Iran

March/April 2011, Erica S. Downs and Suzanne Maloney

Developing Clean Energy Markets: Toward China-Japan-U.S. Cooperation

October 25, 2010

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The Realities of a Rising China and Implications for Russia’s Energy Ambitions

August 2010, Igor Danchenko, Erica S. Downs and Fiona Hill