While China has become the world's largest creditor in recent years, its aggressive lending strategy under the Belt and Road Initiative has been criticized by other countries for its lack of transparency.

This “debt trap” has already occurred in Sri Lanka and the Maldives due to Belt and Road projects. Monaco and France Xi Jinping will visit Monaco on March 24 before heading to France on the same day.

Implicit Critique of China’s Belt and Road Initiative In his speech at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, the Japanese prime minister implicitly criticized the CCP's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a debt trap and proposed that Japan will continue

Belt, One Road (OBOR, also known as Belt and Road) initiative.

Bon Nguyen, president of the Vietnamese Association of Australia, speaks out against Victoria’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) agreement on the steps of Victorian Parliament House on June 7, 2020.

Sri Lanka is also a key part of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, which other countries have criticized as a “debt trap” for smaller nations. 

Sri Lanka is also a key part of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, which other countries have criticized as a “debt trap” for smaller nations. 

Workers take down a Belt and Road Forum panel outside the venue of the forum in Beijing on April 27, 2019.

The country owes $3 billion, or almost half of its foreign debt, to China, according to multiple sources. Hun’s government is one of the earliest supporters of the One Belt, One Road initiative (OBOR, also known as Belt and Road).

China sees the Western Balkans, which includes Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Serbia, as well as Montengro, as part of its Belt and Road initiative to expand Chinese influence.

This effort aligns with China’s broader strategy of promoting its cybersecurity and digital systems abroad, an export strategy centered on “digital sovereignty” that is visible in Belt and Road Initiative digital partnerships.

In recent years, China has lured many poor countries into a debt trap through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which is one of the world’s most ambitious and controversial development programs.

China's debt-to-gross domestic product ratio reached two-to-one about a decade ago and has recently reached an unsustainable three-to-one.

The $57 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a series of port and rail improvements associated with China's One Belt, One Road infrastructure building initiative, has led to massive imports of Chinese equipment and materials, swelling Pakistan's

It said that PNG was the first Pacific island country to sign a bilateral document on the Belt and Road initiative with China, which is a major part of Beijing’s economic thrust to become the dominant power in the region.

There is growing international concern about China’s ties with Cambodia, one of the earliest supporters of the One Belt, One Road initiative (OBOR, also known as Belt and Road).

And One Belt, One Road (OBOR), China’s ambitious initiative to finance infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and Europe, has come under scrutiny for burdening poor nations with debt.

‘Predatory Economic Policies’ A recent report by an Australian think tank has highlighted the Chinese regime’s ambitions in the region, particularly through the “One Belt, One Road” initiative (also known as OBOR, or “Belt and Road”), an infrastructure

, One Road") and “military-civil fusion” (MCF) policies.

CalPERS also owns shares in several Chinese state-owned enterprises that are involved in China’s controversial Belt and Road initiative (also known as One Belt, One Road), which has been criticized by Washington as a way for China to spread influence

Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific 2.0 counterintuitively includes rather than ignores China’s "One Belt, One Road" initiative (OBOR, also called Belt & Road).

African leaders wish to overturn the China Belt & Road initiative, which is creating an unsustainable debt issue while enslaving the people of Africa.

Geraci’s comment was affirmed two days later when Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said he may sign an accord on One Belt, One Road (OBOR, also known as Belt and Road) when Xi visits, according to Reuters.

The whole Belt and Road mantra is changing towards a more accommodative one.

Now it appears that things are not going as smoothly as expected in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

The project is considered one of the White House’s key initiatives in the Middle East to counter China's growing influence in the region through its controversial infrastructure program, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

“[We should] pursue common development in harmony”—the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative hub-and-spokes model is nothing but a debt trap for participants on the road to becoming a Chinese vassal state.

During his decade-long rule, Najib courted Chinese investment and was a cheerleader for China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR, also known as Belt and Road) initiative in Southeast Asia.

Officials and experts have criticized the Belt and Road for trapping developing countries under heavy debt—which could pressure them into supporting Beijing’s policies.

He also said he wants to ensure that International Monetary Fund Special Drawing Rights monetary reserves channeled to poorer countries are not used to pay off debts owed to China for Belt and Road infrastructure projects.