John Perkins | Lessons From The Confessions Of An Economic Hitman
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Sri Lanka and the Chinese Debt Trap
Sri Lanka and its family that runs the country have continually taken on big amounts of debt. There is an argument to be made that what we're seeing in Sri Lanka right now could kind of be the result of a Chinese debt trap on a large port that they have. But again, it wasn't for the Chinese, unlike we, the Chinese didn't really go in and say, hey, build this port. And maybe some of the Chinese advisors also indicated that a port would be a good thing.
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