What is behind China's lending abroad?

Date

July 27, 2022, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EDT
Virtual Event

Nicolas Véron (PIIE), Bradley C. Parks (College of William and Mary) and Mary E. Lovely (PIIE)

Event Summary

A surge of Chinese government lending to low- and middle-income economies has reshaped international finance over the last two decades. What motivated Beijing's lending? Why is Chinese credit attractive to debtors? And how are these supply and demand factors changing?

Joining this episode of Financial Statements were:

HOST

Nicolas Véron
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

GUESTS

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About This Series

Financial Statements is a biweekly virtual event series hosted by Nicolas Véron that explores changes in the world of finance, encompassing themes of financial services regulation, corporate finance and governance, systemic fragility and crises, and structural changes driving business and policy trends in the financial sector.