Lee Jones: It Takes Two to Tango: The Bilateral Political Economy of the BRI's Implementation
Channel: HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS)
Date: 10/12/2020

Lee Jones (Queen Mary University) presented his work on It Takes Two to Tango: The Bilateral Political Economy of the Belt and Road Initiative's Implementation at the Conference on Trade and Investment under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI2020),  hosted online between 19-28 August 2020 by HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies. 

Funded by the Hong Kong SAR Government under the Strategic Public Policy Research (SPPR) Scheme, HKUST IEMS has been leading an interdisciplinary research project on “Trade and Investment under the Belt and Road Initiative and Implications for Hong Kong” since 2017.  As part of the research project, this conference aims to release some of the findings from the projects, as well as bringing together leading researchers from around the world who also have conducted evidence-based research on the Initiative to discuss the implementation and impacts of Belt and Road projects.   

Find out more about this conference at http://iems.ust.hk/bri2020