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Is China More Aggressive Than Other Lenders?
Most of the reporting is, as was actually quoting you somen in the headline, saying that china is is a lender that's willing to use aggressive measures against global south governments. So i was wondering if you could unpack that little bit like, what did you mean by aggressive and intrusive? And, you know, no, which aspects are particularly do you find pretily aggressive, and do you find them more oggressive than other other conlact equivalent lon contracts? Ye, it's a great question. The contract requires the borrower to put a large cash deposit in foreign currency, in dollars, in an scro account that the lender can unilaterally seize in the event that
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