{"id":144902,"date":"2026-01-26T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144902"},"modified":"2026-01-26T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:00:17","slug":"chinese-lending-to-africa-nearly-halves-in-a-year-as-priorities-shift-to-smaller-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144902","title":{"rendered":"Chinese lending to Africa nearly halves in a year as priorities shift to smaller projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese lending to Africa dropped by nearly half to US$2.1 billion in 2024 compared with the previous year, according to a new report.<br \/>\nThe fall, from US$3.9 billion in 2023, was part of a decade-long trend. Lending had been on an upwards trajectory since 2006 and peaked between 2012 and 2018 \u2013 a period that saw the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative when lending passed the US$10 billion mark each year.<br \/>\nAt its height, in 2016, Beijing lent US$28.8 billion, but the total has not passed the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3341213\/chinese-lending-africa-nearly-halves-year-priorities-shift-smaller-projects?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese lending to Africa dropped by nearly half to US$2.1 billion in 2024 compared with the previous year, according to a new report. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144902"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}