{"id":41055,"date":"2022-01-25T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/25\/reparations-caribbean-cycle-of-corruption-china"},"modified":"2022-01-25T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T05:01:35","slug":"reparations-to-the-caribbean-could-break-the-cycle-of-corruption-and-chinas-grip-kenneth-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41055","title":{"rendered":"Reparations to the Caribbean could break the cycle of corruption \u2013 and China\u2019s grip | Kenneth Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The belt and road initiative is ensnaring vulnerable countries in debt via corrupt infrastructure projects. Slavery reparations from former colonial powers could help turn the tide<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/25\/governments-around-the-world-used-covid-to-erode-human-rights-report\">Governments around the world used Covid to erode human rights \u2013 report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Transparency International (TI) publishes their annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) this week, it will be interesting to see where certain countries land: 2021 has been a bumper year for corruption.<\/p>\n<p>In Britain, corruption has been on the minds of journalists, academics and practitioners alike, as Boris Johnson tries to get himself run out, the only hope of him continuing his innings lying with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jan\/24\/transparency-fears-as-minister-says-sue-gray-findings-will-be-published\">Sue Gray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/25\/reparations-caribbean-cycle-of-corruption-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The belt and road initiative is ensnaring vulnerable countries in debt via corrupt infrastructure projects. Slavery reparations from former colonial powers could help turn the tideGovernments around the world used Covid to erode human rights \u2013 reportAs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2835,"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":[246,41,1241,50,749,1071,2507,59,1203,1353,61,674,2497,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-caribbean","category-china","category-colonialism","category-corruption-index-and-barometer","category-debt-relief","category-global-development","category-inequality","category-inequality-and-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-trinidad-and-tobago","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41055","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\/2835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41056,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41055\/revisions\/41056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}