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More Countries May Fall Into China’s Debt Trap With COVID-19

WASHINGTON—Through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China has poured billions of dollars in loans into low-income countries to help build their massive infrastructure projects. And now with the COVID-19 ...

May 24, 2020BY Emel Akan
The ‘Silk Road’ Verdict

The idea, at first, sounded good: Plow trillions of dollars into infrastructure projects in the barren wasteland that ...

July 20, 2017BY Valentin Schmid
China Wants a New Silk Road, but It Has to Get Past the Taliban First

Project depends on new Pakistan paramilitary force defeating Taliban, separatists, and sectarian violence.

June 8, 2015BY Joshua Philipp

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