Johan van de Ven

Johan van de Ven is a Senior Analyst at RWR Advisory Group, a Washington, D.C.-based consultancy that advises government and private-sector clients on geopolitical risks associated with China and Russia’s international economic activity. He leads RWR’s research and analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative, the centerpiece of foreign policy under Xi Jinping, and also edits the Belt and Road Monitor, RWR’s bi-weekly newsletter.

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Development Lending is Down, But the BRI Lives to Fight Another Day

02.26.2021 Johan van de Ven

Introduction In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on the global economy, pessimistic analyses of the Belt and Road Initiative culminated with the December...

Publication China Brief Central Asia

Limited Payoffs: What Have BRI Investments Delivered for China Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak?

03.16.2020 Johan van de Ven

Introduction The coronavirus outbreak, now declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO, March 11), offers a prism through which to assess...

Publication China Brief China

Fair-Weather Friends: The Impact of the Coronavirus on the Strategic Partnership Between Russia and China

02.28.2020 Johan van de Ven

Introduction In June 2019, during a visit to the Kremlin by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping, the People’s Republic of China (PRC)...

Publication China Brief China

“Expanding China’s Friendship Group”: The BRI’s Rhetorical Utility Amid the U.S.-China Trade War

11.01.2019 Johan van de Ven

Introduction Even before the White House applied 25 percent tariffs to $50 billion worth of Chinese imports in early April 2018, Chinese academics had argued...

Publication China Brief Brazil