China scholar @UniHeidelberg | Global China | #ChineseAid | 🇨🇳-🇷🇺relations | @deconspirator | https://t.co/oYHOIJsu1Q | ex aid-worker | 🌹
Feb 23, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Short 🧵:
It is a widespread assumption among Western participants at #Raisina2024 that #Russia will end up as #China’s junior partner. I agree with #India’s FM @DrSJaishankar that this is a misperception. /1
@DrSJaishankar argues that countries with such a statecraft as #Russia will not put themselves in a single asymmetric relationship with a player like #China. I‘d add, 🇷🇺 didn’t want to be the West’s junior partner, why would it accept to be China’s? /2
#Raisina2024
Jul 6, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
"#China grabbed Hambantota port because Sri Lanka was unable to service the debt."
This is still circulating, even among China and development experts, although it has long been debunked, including by Sri Lankan economists.A🧵w/t relevant research - and why it matters.
China is the world's largest bilateral creditor and many of its borrowers face the risk of excess debt. It matters to get things right in the analysis of their lender-borrower relations, b/c misrepresentations divert from the real and complex problems, the borrowers are facing.
