This issue brief thus aims to: • Contribute to enriching regional and national perspectives in tackling China’s role in influencing policies and institutions of other developing countries that are related to access to land and tenurial security; • Set a framework that will guide the research, the policy analysis, and the advocacy relating to a developing country’s economic partnership with China and its link to access-to-land issues; • Provide an example of how country case studies vis-à-vis relations with China can be developed.