China's Superbank: Debt, Oil and Influence - How China Development Bank is Rewriting the Rules of Finance

Acknowledgments

Henry Sanderson

Thanks to my parents, my sister Vanessa, and Gu Bo for their support and encouragement during this project as well as for reading drafts. To Jenny Xu for helping with translations throughout, pointing me in the right direction, and finding new source material on CDB. In Ethiopia, many thanks to Fannie Gong. I’ve learned a lot from discussions with Victor Shih, Carl Walter, Fraser Howie, and Deborah Brautigam, whose own books were an inspiration. The excellent work of Zhang Yuzhe at Caixin magazine was also helpful. At Bloomberg, thanks to Ken Kohn, Chris Collins, and Shelley Smith for allowing me to do this project, as well as to Neil Western for supporting the local government stories. The Beijing bureau colleagues ...