WILLIAMSBURG, Va., March 5 -- William and Mary issued the following news release:
Competition between China and the United States over two ports in Panama is just one recent example of how strategically-located harbors are becoming flashpoints in great power competition.
A new report and dataset released today by AidData, a research lab at William & Mary, speak to this timely issue by capturing in unprecedented detail an important plank in China's economic and foreign policy platform: control of overseas ports. More than 100 students at William & Mary had a hand in the construction of the dataset.
The "Anchoring Global Ambitions" report finds that, between 2000 and 2025, Chinese official entities and state-owned enterprises provided loan...