{"id":53884,"date":"2023-03-28T21:06:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T12:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/28\/china-spent-240bn-belt-and-road-debts-between-2008-and-2021"},"modified":"2023-03-28T21:06:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T12:06:13","slug":"china-spent-240bn-on-belt-and-road-bailouts-from-2008-to-2021-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53884","title":{"rendered":"China spent $240bn on belt and road bailouts from 2008 to 2021, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rise in emergency financing for other countries since 2016 correlates with drop in infrastructure lending<\/p>\n<p>China spent $240bn (\u00a3195bn) bailing out countries struggling under their belt and road initiative debts between 2008 and 2021, new data shows.<\/p>\n<p>Research found that Chinese state-backed lenders released bailout funds to 22 countries, including Argentina, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Ukraine. Almost 80% of the emergency rescue lending was issued after 2016, reaching more than $40bn in 2021.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/28\/china-spent-240bn-belt-and-road-debts-between-2008-and-2021\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise in emergency financing for other countries since 2016 correlates with drop in infrastructure lendingChina spent $240bn (\u00a3195bn) bailing out countries struggling under their belt and road initiative debts between 2008 and 2021, new data shows.Resea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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":[41,412,6,50,558,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-belt-and-road-initiative","category-business","category-china","category-global-economy","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\/53884","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53885,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53884\/revisions\/53885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}