{"id":1796,"date":"2018-05-19T00:05:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T00:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2018-05-19T00:05:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T00:05:56","slug":"warning-sounded-over-chinas-debtbook-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/05\/19\/warning-sounded-over-chinas-debtbook-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning sounded over China&#8217;s &#8216;debtbook diplomacy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/may\/15\/warning-sounded-over-chinas-debtbook-diplomacy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s \u201cdebtbook diplomacy\u201d uses strategic debts to gain political leverage with economically vulnerable countries across the Asia-Pacific region, the US state department has been warned in an independent report.<\/p>\n<p>The academic report, from graduate students of the Harvard Kennedy school of policy analysis, was independently prepared for the state department to view and assessed the impact of China\u2019s strategy on the influence of the US in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The paper identifies 16 \u201ctargets\u201d of China\u2019s tactic of extending hundreds of billions of dollars in loans to countries that can\u2019t afford to pay them, and then strategically leveraging the debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/may\/15\/warning-sounded-over-chinas-debtbook-diplomacy &nbsp; China\u2019s \u201cdebtbook diplomacy\u201d uses strategic debts to gain political leverage with economically vulnerable countries across the Asia-Pacific region, the US state department has been warned in an independent report. The academic report, from graduate students of the Harvard Kennedy school of policy analysis, was independently prepared for the state department to view and assessed the impact of China\u2019s&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/05\/19\/warning-sounded-over-chinas-debtbook-diplomacy\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1797,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}