There are two scripts that analyze and visualize the investments that the Chinese government has made globally as part of the Belt and Road Initiative by region, sector and "green" projects.
BRIInvestment.R and Chiit.rmd are written for cleaning and visualizing the dataset provided by The American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation, as of 2020 February. (https://www.aei.org/china-global-investment-tracker/)
BUDATA.R and BUdata.rmd are written for cleaning and visualizing the dataset provided by Boston University's Global Policy Development Center, as of 2020 February. (https://www.bu.edu/cgef/)