Jacob Mardell

Jacob Mardell is an analyst focusing on China’s foreign policy and global economic footprint, as well as editorial coordinator of the “Spheres of Influence” project at the German media NGO n-ost. He was previously an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies and has traveled extensively researching projects that make up China’s “Belt and Road Initiative.”

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    PRC Partnership Diplomacy in the New Era

    Executive Summary: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has an extensive taxonomy of diplomatic relations, with at least 42 unique combinations of adjectives for different partnerships. The PRC has never