'China needs urgent oversight of investments', 1 December 2017

With the advent of the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s ever-increasing overseas investments have been attracting more attention. In Latin America alone, China has direct investments worth over US$110 billion, and in countries such as Brazil, China’s investments rank alongside those of the US and Spain. Accompanying this, and due to weak environmental and social awareness, there have been frequent failures in how Chinese companies deal with communities in the host countries. Zhang Jingjing, an environmental lawyer, [argues that] China’s government and legislative bodies should be focusing on oversight and accountability to set a clear bottom line for the performance of Chinese firms overseas...