{"id":72001,"date":"2025-05-27T14:54:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/27\/poorest-750-nations-face-tidal-wave-of-debt-repayments-to-china-in-2025-study-warns"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:54:02","slug":"poorest-750-nations-face-tidal-wave-of-debt-repayments-to-china-in-2025-study-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72001","title":{"rendered":"Poorest 750 nations face \u2018tidal wave\u2019 of debt repayments to China in 2025, study warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable countries to pay record $22bn this year, mostly relating to loans issued under Xi Jinping\u2019s belt and road initiative<\/p>\n<p>The most vulnerable nations on Earth are facing a \u201ctidal wave\u201d of debt repayments as a Chinese lending boom starts to be called in, a new report has warned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interactives.lowyinstitute.org\/features\/peak-repayment-china-global-lending\/\">The analysis<\/a>, published on Tuesday by Australian foreign policy thinktank the Lowy Institute, said that in 2025 the poorest 75 countries were on the hook for record high debt repayments US$22bn to China. The 75 nations\u2019 debt formed the bulk of the total $35bn calculated by Lowy for 2025.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/27\/poorest-750-nations-face-tidal-wave-of-debt-repayments-to-china-in-2025-study-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable countries to pay record $22bn this year, mostly relating to loans issued under Xi Jinping\u2019s belt and road initiativeThe most vulnerable nations on Earth are facing a \u201ctidal wave\u201d of debt repayments as a Chinese lending boom starts to be call&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[401,41,50,2507,437,558],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-debt-relief","category-economics","category-global-economy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72001","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72002,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72001\/revisions\/72002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}