{"id":155767,"date":"2026-08-07T09:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155767"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:05:01","slug":"china-shifts-from-africas-top-megaproject-lender-to-a-debt-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155767","title":{"rendered":"China shifts from Africa\u2019s top megaproject lender to a debt collector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostSince the mid\u20112000s, China has established itself as Africa\u2019s principal bilateral financier for large infrastructure projects, including railways, bridges, dams and ports. But as the loans involved reach maturity, Beijing has transitioned from a net provider of funds to a net collector.<br \/>\nDrawing on data from Boston University\u2019s Global Development Policy Centre and its own calculations, Oxford Economics Africa said in a new analysis that Chinese loan commitments dropped from a peak of US$28.8&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3363301\/china-shifts-africas-top-megaproject-lender-debt-collector?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 PostSince the mid\u20112000s, China has established itself as Africa\u2019s principal bilateral financier for large infrastructure projects, including railways, bridges, dams and ports. But as&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\/155767"}],"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=155767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}