{"id":68441,"date":"2022-12-02T02:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T02:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=68441"},"modified":"2022-12-02T02:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T02:00:23","slug":"chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-debt-trap-narrative-dispelled-by-us-report-but-reveals-more-sri-lankan-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=68441","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative \u2018debt trap\u2019 narrative dispelled by US report, but reveals more Sri Lankan debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostReport shows China held 19.6 per cent of Sri Lanka\u2019s US$37.6 billion external debt at the end of 2021, but downplayed suggestions of a so-called Chinese debt trap around Beijing\u2019s signature Belt and Road Initiative.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3201680\/chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-debt-trap-narrative-dispelled-us-report-reveals-more-sri-lankan-debt?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 PostReport shows China held 19.6 per cent of Sri Lanka\u2019s US$37.6 billion external debt at the end of 2021, but downplayed suggestions of a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":68442,"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\/68441"}],"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=68441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}