1. #MaxHastings needs to bone up before sketchily declaiming ‘#histrionics in the #West’ about #ChineseBeltandRoad #lending, @thetimes 30 July 22, p 33. Becoming, like that #LeCarré, another raging '#nationaltreasure' discharging disaffected drivel. 
2. Surmises of #moralequivalence between #Chinese and #Western rapacity by #MaxHastings are tenuous. #Pakistanieconomists, long critical of the #BRI, would remind him how 27% of #Islamabad’s #externaldebt, $90bn as of April 2021, is now owed to #Beijing.
3. #Pakistan, since 1988, has been bailed out 12 times and in talks for a thirteenth reprieve as it requires at least $41bn to sustain #foreignexchangereserves. #IMF suspicion of #dodgyChinese #powercompanies borne out in recent #reports.
4. @IMFNews has rightly urged #Pakistanat75 to review the #ChinaPakistanEconomicCorridor (#CPEC). #Maldivian #Chinesedebt stands at over $1.5bn, of a total of $5.6bn, on the watch of then #PresidentYameen now imprisoned for #moneylaundering.
5. One of the #RajapaksaBrothers fled but not before #BRIChina financed their #SriLankan reign (2005-15). #Africans complain inking a #contract with the #WorldBank takes almost five years of #negotiation and #signing—unlike three months with #BRI #Chinese.
6. #WorldBank disbursements are neither prejudicial nor piecemeal whereas #Chinese #BRI #funding flows only to constituencies of #politicians, particularly during #elections, who never question the opacity or details of deals: @TheEconomist 28 May 22, p 5.
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