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[GLOBAL SOUTH] What's Driving the Steady Decline in Chinese Overseas Development Lending?

The China in Africa Podcast

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What's the Biggest Change in Chinese Lending in the Last Five Years?

After about the first five years of the BRI, we see a shift towards smaller, more targeted projects. The Hambandota port and also the standard gauge railway are two massive projects in many ways that represent the worst in Chinese lending. We can think about this additional lending that kind of came and went as a period of easy money for China.

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