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China's Belt and Road Initiative is neither a "Marshall Plan" for Eurasia and Africa nor a form of "debt-trap diplomacy."
Uganda's airport expansion deal with China is yet another cautionary tale about Chinese lending.
Studies reveal that the true amount of sovereign debt owed by recipients of Chinese lending is vastly underreported.
The debt alarm being set off by international debt management organizations is exaggerated.
Tajikistan is hooked on the Chinese economy. It’s now taking risky security advice from Beijing.
Iran’s attractiveness to Central Asian nations increases the Islamic republic’s importance to the Belt and Road, China’s infrastructure, transportation and...
What do these three things have in common: a Kyrgyz gold mine, a Malaysian Ponzi scheme, and canned camel milk?
The Kyrgyz government rushed a tender. It didn’t go well.
China has invested US$90 billion in the countries involved in its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) since 2013. The BRI...
China is exporting its model of invasive, all-encompassing surveillance to Central Asia, often for free.