Episode 121 – China’s Diplomatic Ascent: Key Observations
The Aerospace Advantage
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China's Expectations for Debt Trap Diplomacy
I think we're hearing that China has a hypothesis and a set of expectations when pursued to debt trap diplomacy. Do you think the real-world results are matching their theory and how do you expect this to continue or evolve? Yeah, so it probably is not matching up to what their expectations were. I don't know if they really thought that was going to be the case. But there are substantial projects abroad specifically in Africa and specifically in Southeast Asia that China will continue to pursue because the juice is worth the squeeze for those projects.
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