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According to a May 2019 Sydney Morning Herald article, accusations of "debt trap diplomacy" were being questioned by new research; an analysis of 40 Chinese debt re-negotiations by the Rhodium Group found "asset seizures are a very rare occurrence", and debt write-off is the most common outcome. [44]
Any move by Panama to distance itself from Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature Belt and Road Initiative is a win for Washington, which has argued that Beijing uses the scheme for "debt trap ...
The warning came as speculation mounted that China had deliberately indebted Sri Lanka to seize its Hambantota port. Do you have questions about the Report casts doubt on Chinese debt-trap threat ...
China's overseas lending is not a "debt trap", former central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan has said, after two of the world's biggest international financial institutions warned of growing credit ...
[103] [104] [105] Following her review of available data, U.S. Air War College Professor Dawn C. Murphy concluded that calling China's behavior in Africa “neocolonial” is “an exaggeration and misrepresentation.” [106] London School of Economics Professor Keyu Jin writes that the claim that China leads borrowers into a debt trap is ...
An October 2019 report by the Lowy Institute said that China had not engaged in deliberate actions in the Pacific which justified accusations of debt-trap diplomacy (based on contemporaneous evidence), and China had not been the primary driver behind rising debt risks in the Pacific; the report expressed concern about the scale of the country's ...
China financed Hambantota International Port in Sri Lanka, which drew allegations of debt-trap diplomacy when Sri Lanka defaulted on its loans and China took control of the port for 99 years. [39] Some western analysts have suggested China's debt-trap diplomacy may hide hegemonic intentions and challenges to states' sovereignty. [40]
While the U.S. and China remain the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, the impact of those emissions has fallen most heavily on debt-distressed nations that don't have the financial backing to ...