What distinguishes china from a lot of other lenders is a lack of transparency. It doesn't really publish much in the way of official data on its own lending to other countries. A lot of the projects that china lends money for are not particlarly commercially violable. There are now signs that china is slowly changing its position, because these debt problems, especially developing world, are getting so acute and it's becoming clear that china cannot deal with them on its own.

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