World Bank sounds the alarm on China's development loans and trade war

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Asia-Pacific

Asia-Pacific nations should be wary about accepting big loans from China to build infrastructure as part of its Belt and Road initiative, according to Sudhir Shetty, the World Bank's chief economist for East Asia and the Pacific. He warned that some Belt and Road projects would only be promising...

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