{"id":10301,"date":"2019-10-21T07:17:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T22:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/21\/chinese-loans-expose-pacific-islands-to-risk-of-unsustainable-debt-report-finds"},"modified":"2019-10-21T07:17:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T22:17:53","slug":"experts-dispel-claims-of-china-debt-trap-diplomacy-in-pacific-but-risks-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10301","title":{"rendered":"Experts dispel claims of China debt-trap diplomacy in Pacific but risks remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing should substantially reform its lending practices, Lowy Institute says<\/p>\n<p>China has not engaged in deliberate \u201cdebt-trap diplomacy\u201d in the Pacific, but the burgeoning scale of China\u2019s lending, and institutional weakness within Pacific states, pose clear risks for small states being overwhelmed by debt, a new report argues.<\/p>\n<p>And an infrastructure arms race between China and other countries with interests in the region \u2013 including Australia \u2013 might only exacerbate the problem.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/21\/chinese-loans-expose-pacific-islands-to-risk-of-unsustainable-debt-report-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing should substantially reform its lending practices, Lowy Institute saysChina has not engaged in deliberate \u201cdebt-trap diplomacy\u201d in the Pacific, but the burgeoning scale of China\u2019s lending, and institutional weakness within Pacific states, pose &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[247,41,43,645,412,50,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aid","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-belt-and-road-initiative","category-china","category-global-development"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10302,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301\/revisions\/10302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}