Belt and Road Initiative boosts China's clout overseas but concerns like debt-trap diplomacy remain 

12-7-2022 Britain-based charity Debt Justice: 35% of African gov debt is owed to Western lenders compared to 12% owed to Chinese lenders The average interest rate on Western loans is 5%, compared to 2.7% Chinese lenders.

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Jai Hinduja. Infrastructure projects are getting bigger if not cheaper. India is now building a trade corridor from India to Europe.

Debt trap is a gaslighting & projection construct of those who practice it themselves to smear China's efforts.👎👎🙃

Jai Hinduja. Consultants will still get their hefty cuts in all World Bank loans whether or not the Bank runs out of steam in issuing new loans. Nevertheless there will be no new major infrastructure built in US as long as the US keeps its promise to service its growing 33 Trillions debt at high and higher interest rates

What do you expect from a pro western news network?

Check before comment, cna did post video about 'obor' debt trap topic last month.

Jai Hinduja. Cut and paste from MSM to damage BRI image to prevent more countries from joining infrastructure building spree.

CNA is a rumor mill instead of a news outlet.

Very true Should do a piece on Yes no debt trap Lazy sloppy work Copy ande paste Get likes from Western garbage disposal To gete

Well, The editorial team of CNA is of the opinion that 140+ countries are not as smart as CNA, else they would not participate in the project.

Channel okay People there too lazy Or Western media leaning

with about 10K views and about 100 Likes... tells you how much ''value'' CNA has - same as SCMP both bad-mouthed China on FREE western MSM ..

Jai Hinduja. Many Indian professors in economics were also awarded the Nobel prizes in Development without knowing much about China socioeconomic development and its BRI.

Jai Hinduja. Africans should and can ask Mr. Modi India directly for new infrastructure loans rather than going through Ms. Kamala even though she is of Indian origin.

@@tedchandran the African leaders are well educated and aware the global technology and industrial advancement, also fully aware that the famous India Sultanganj Bridge has collapsed twice since construction began in 2017. The most amazing is not collapsed, the unbelievable is it collapsed twice. By the way, the Bihar bridge collapse is only one of the infra disastrous in India.

The irony, right?

Idia does overestimate itself (a general India problem) !!!@@marcuslim5060

​@@tedchandranindia should provide clean air and water to It's people 😝

And India

Jai Hinduja. Not all needy countries attending can qualify or afford a BRI loan.. More reports of needy Japanese prostitutes who may not qualify for a bank loan are going abroad to work have been trickling through the opaque Japanese media even as Japan holds the highest amount of US treasury bonds.

Jai Hinduja. Foreigners are essential for our economic prosperity. Many couples get more prosperous in buying or investing to scale up the property ladder but had become too tired and/or financially tied up to have a baby or more babies.

Jai Hinduja. Everyone must read from a prepared script.

Just look at Niger. The country is poor but the ruling elites are fifthly rich owing properties in Paris. And worst of all, Niger is selling it's uranium to France for 8 Euros while the market price is 200 euros per kilo.

Jai Hinduja. Most West African leaders owe a living to the West to keep them in power like Mali, Niger etc.

debt-trap by Western lenders

Worst of all, despite all the debts owed to western nations, they do not have any infrastructure to show. Where have the money gone?

Jai Hinduja. The Brit Rajs had robbed us Indians of 45 trillions dollar.

Chinese lenders 3.9%, western interest 0.7% . Leading to the bankruptcy of Sri Lanka. China is all about money.

@@Scambuster491facts 👍🏻

A gathering of democracy Sad spore left out

@@cheemengsiew288 In the past, they used God and Churches to control people; today, they are using Democracy and Mainstream media to make people become sheep. You can try to study for 10 PhDs. By then maybe you can understand my words. Ha ha ha!

Propaganda of some as usual...

Just report whatever western media said.

Pakistan 😅😅😅😅

Tajkistan😅😅😅

Countries that took China's territory when china was weak will definitely have problems. Do you think china will just be humiliated to forget them.

@@LeeSkJohn-sv8wi yes

😅So many dxmb people still totally believe in English mxdia from the west.

😆Guess how many of them are Jxwxsh ?

100% of the media in China is controlled by ONE party. No prize for guessing who that party is. 😂

CNA 是 mini-BBC. 它提供的新闻是给香蕉人消费的。 Ha ha ha!

The good book to read is "Confessions of an Economic Hitman". It tells how the IMF forced those nations to sell their resources to western nations in return for IMF loans.

Are the West not arguing against trade...indirectly

Jai Hinduja. Infrastructure building debt war could replace the current Trade and Technology wars to influence future geopolitics.

12-7-2022 Britain-based charity Debt Justice: 35% of African gov debt is owed to Western lenders compared to 12% owed to Chinese lenders The average interest rate on Western loans is 5%, compared to 2.7% Chinese lenders

Sour grapes

Well they are not putting a gun to your head to buy their stuff. You can always look for other non Chinese brands

We use our tax-payers money to fund the CNA, and hence able to produce this wonderful interview of a highly qualified professor to enlighten us about the topic. Please don't think that he spoke as though it is scripted for him by someone else. It is impolite not to give anything a benefit of a doubt when one has no proof of what one thinks to eb the case. That is our most obvious contribution to the World, if you haven't noticed.

Jai Hinduja. Singapore must learn how to keep on the Act of balancing on a tiny red pinhead .

Jai Hinduja. Countries had learnt that there was no free lunch from the West in the past, So similarly, don't expect free Chinese takeaway at the present..

Jai Hinduja. We depend on Bangla workers for our infrastructures. However Singapore can profit enormously if it can get a tiny sliver of international infrastructure financing.

Have you heard of the concept 'responsible lending '?

Not really. Yet I can assume the principles. The ability to carry the debt and pay back, reasonable term and interest, space for renegotiation of terms in a difficult phase with out penalty, for the creditor the risk is worthwhile, possibly.

Is it bad for China to loan so much to these countries?

@@huanghermann5207 China should invest in their own economy first. Yes, they can loan money to these risky developing countries for their infrastructure projects and collect the relatively-high interest. The problem is that these developing countries fail to meet their own project goals, due to their government/ officials being corrupt, and in the end default on debt payments to China. So China doesn't get to reap the return on their investment (they may get the infrastructure like the Sri Lanka port as collateral but whats the point if their BRI partner countries govt goes bankrupt such as Sri Lanka ).

​@@huanghermann5207 China must Not simply give loans n look at financial position of the country to pay etc Many countries wiil be unable to pay Chinese loans,IMF ,World bank etc Thus will create more problems . Since China is Rich ,do not encourage corruption ., Singapore does business professionally . Example - China has a $ 400 billion ,trade business agreement with Iran ,this is China,s. smartness . On the other hand ,China is very Quiet on the Iranian oil wealth being use to finance ,form ,train n arm terror groups in Yemen ,Libya ,Lebanon ,Syria Gaza ,,Iraq etc supports Hamas ,Hezbollah etc to do terror attacks etc Pakistan - China gives Loans to this iron brother n when Pakistan cannot pay ,China will ask Pakistan to ask IMF loan , Arab nation begging ,donation etc to pay up the Chinese loan first . China must ensure that Chinese loans are not USE to form ,train n arm terror groups to do terror attacks. Non ,- Chinese countries must ensure that the Chinese infrastructure projects can bring benefits ,n not simply Waste billions on projects that are not beneficial n then pay loans ! India - India says under British Colonization ,for 200 years Britain looted 42 trillion of resources . India Did Not say how much Indian National leaders- the elite ,upper caste etc looted within India for 200 years The corrupt Indian National leadership at that period allowed the British to come to India under the pretext of doing trade ,business etc - use bribery ,corruption ,influence ,USE the Indian National leadership to control 500 million poor Indians at that time .to rule India . Asean is doing business ,trade with China in billions but does Not mean ASEAN must be Quiet on China,s aggression in Asia ,taken over South China sea, China,s New Map ,

The best example is Ukraine. A lot of smooth talk about being nice to eachother, making peace, whatever. But what is now really with China's 12 point plan, the mediator they sent? I am sick and tired hearing all the China bullshxt-marketing. Where China has got involved, there are only problems for the world left.

​@@krollpeterUmmm, no. The issues in Ukraine are really the consequence of a cold war mentality between Europe and Russia that never disappeared. The only difference between the last 2 years and the previous 28 years before that since the the fall of the Soviet Union is that Russia now has the will and ability to assert itself against NATO expansionism. The west lacks responsibility to recognize their own fault to causing this war.

@@albback8176 That is 100 % not the case. Everybody in Europe thought we are over wars. We cut down on military spendings, we reduced military man count, the military forces were deprived on equipment. We had intensive trade with Russia, and EU's policy was trade and diplomacy. It had been told several times to Putin directly, that Ukraine will not join Nato, the last on the 16 of February 2021, when Putin said to chancellor Scholz 'nobody thinks about a war" straight into his face. 6 days later he started raping Ukraine. This very scene is available for everyone to view on RU-vid. If you still did not learn it by now, I am afraid there is nothing that would help, even if I used the entire history as a proof. And even if you were right, none of that justified a war against Ukraine. Nowadays it seems people are getting more and more weird, instead of informed.

@@krollpeter So if Nato is a military alliance devised to counter the Soviet Union, then why did expansion continue after the Soviet Union collapsed? It did not take very long for Nato to admit 11 countries to membership in the 1990s, with some of those countries directly bordering Russia, such as the baltic states. Expansionism presents an aggressive threat, as any member country benefits from military resources of other members, as well as guarantees of nuclear retaliation. Nato member countries are permitted to mass military forces on their land, which poses a security threat in close proximity to Russia. The only reason for reduction of military resources and expenditures occurred mainly because Russia was in no position to support it is own significant military at the time. This had nothing to do with peaceful gestures. Sure, the west will engage in trade and niceties, but such niceties are shadowed by a mallet ready to be dropped from overhead.

@@albback8176 The Nato Alliance is a defence alliance of countries who agree they would help and defend each other in case any of the members is attacked. It was originally founded with the existence of the Iron Wall in mind, but later expanded to the task that I described with the first paragraph. The majority of former Soviet states hates Russia, and among them the most important ones. If Russia was so wonderful and the Nato and EU so bad, are they are all totally stupid? Does it not ring a bell that only those dubios and dictatory ones still love Russia? Poland and the Baltic states for example would rather die than going back to fascist Putina. End of the Chinese brainwashing wishy-washy. I am tired hearing and responding to always the same poo.

Question is what are you stopping China from

Shallow, you're trying to destroy South Korea and Japan? Ha ha ha!