“China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse”
May 18, 2023
“A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China.
An Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China — including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia, Laos and Mongolia — found paying back that debt is consuming an ever-greater amount of the tax revenue needed to keep schools open, provide electricity and pay for food and fuel. And it’s draining foreign currency reserves these countries use to pay interest on those loans, leaving some with just months before that money is gone…”
Who would have thought doing business with a dictatorship would be a bad idea? The CCP is evil. Did the countries really believe China wanted to help them? How foolish can you get? I mean really?