{"id":148803,"date":"2026-03-30T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148803"},"modified":"2026-03-30T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:00:08","slug":"eus-flagship-africa-project-under-fire-over-ties-to-chinese-state-owned-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148803","title":{"rendered":"EU\u2019s flagship Africa project under fire over ties to Chinese state-owned firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTo European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the ribbon of rail snaking from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia across Angola to the Atlantic port of Lobito is \u201cmore than just infrastructure\u201d.<br \/>\nThe Lobito Corridor rail upgrade is a flagship project of the EU\u2019s \u20ac300 billion (US$346 billion) infrastructure drive, Global Gateway, launched to great fanfare in 2021 as a rival to Beijing\u2019s own Belt and Road Initiative.<br \/>\nIt is also pivotal to the EU\u2019s efforts to wean itself off&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3348330\/eus-flagship-africa-project-under-fire-over-ties-chinese-state-owned-firms?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 PostTo European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the ribbon of rail snaking from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia across Angola&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\/148803"}],"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=148803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}