Key Takeaways:

• CDF is framed as a BRI-extension and South-South cooperation tool.
• Governance is fragmented despite strong top-level strategic coordination.
• Overseas the focus is on commercial, infrastructure-heavy, debt-based projects.
• CDF is in a post-peak phase, shifting towards green, digital and PPP models.
• Outcomes depend heavily on borrower capacity and institutions.

Key Takeaways:

• CCSOs form dense interpersonal and transnational networks through multi role participation, shared activities, and digital platforms.
• CCSOs contribute to social integration, civic education, and the well-being of Chinese migrants.
• Key barriers include limited access to funding, high turnover, political risks, difficulty navigating European institutional systems, and a shrinking civic space in increasingly nationalist host societies.

Key Takeaways:

• Europe must see standardization not as a niche technical field, but as a key site of geopolitical contestation and opportunity.
• Europe has historically occupied a central position in international standardization.
• China has aligned industrial champions, state institutions and global diplomacy behind a shared objective: embedding Chinese standards in the global economy of tomorrow.
• This report proposed a blueprint for action on standardization along programming, promoting, protecting, partnering and process. 

Key Takeaways:

• The internationalization of the Renminbi (RMB) is a long-term project that has evolved gradually through a series of policy initiatives, infrastructure developments and external shocks over the past few decades.
• The international use of the RMB has seen only modest progress in the past 15 years, but China has substantially expanded the institutional infrastructure that underpins this internationalization.
• China’s authorities are at a crossroad with the internationalization of the RMB.