Welcome to our Chinese Responsible Investment Overseas Newsletter. This newsletter aims to serve as a platform for updates, insights, and tools on key topics relating to social and environmental impacts of Chinese overseas investments and business, and as a resource to promote peer learning and informed decision-making. To provide more up-to-date information for practitioners and researchers in this field, we slightly upgrade the contents with lead story and practical resources in the past quarter, and guest blogs that present cutting edge issues and in-depth analysis of how to promote sustainable development and responsible business through China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from leading experts & advanced organizations.

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We thank Pichamon Yeophantong, Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales (Canberra), for contributing a guest blog for this issue. Pichamon highlights that in Cambodia’s garment industry, which features a large concentration of investment from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the responsibility to prevent gender-based violence and empower women workers for greater gender equality in this important sector falls not only on the Cambodian government and global brands, but equally—if not more—on the factory owners and investors.