{"id":149601,"date":"2025-11-24T02:52:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T02:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/149601\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T02:52:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T02:52:25","slug":"china-has-lent-more-to-us-than-any-other-country-since-2000-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/149601\/","title":{"rendered":"China has lent more to US than any other country since 2000, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s lending since the turn of the century has been \u201cvastly\u201d larger than previously understood, with loans and grants increasingly going to developed countries including the United States \u2013 the largest recipient \u2013 according to a new report by an American university research team.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Of the US$2.2 trillion disbursed by China\u2019s \u201cofficial sector\u201d between 2000 and 2023, nearly US$202 billion went to projects in the US, the AidData research lab at Virginia-based university William &amp; Mary found.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOur data demonstrate that the US \u2013 a high-income country \u2013 is the single largest recipient of official sector credit from China. This finding is both unexpected and counterintuitive,\u201d wrote researchers of the study released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an extraordinary discovery, given that the US has spent the better part of the last decade warning other countries of the dangers of accumulating significant debt exposure to China, and accusing China of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3122496\/debt-trap-diplomacy-myth-no-evidence-china-pushes-poor-nations?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">practising \u2018debt trap diplomacy\u2019<\/a>,\u201d said Brad Parks, AidData\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The study \u2013 which was compiled over 36 months using more than 246,000 sources \u2013 defined a wide range of institutions as official Chinese lenders and donors, including state policy banks, state-owned commercial banks, state-owned companies, state-owned funds, and the central bank and its subsidiaries.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some of the Chinese lending to projects in the US involved the construction of \u201ccritical infrastructure\u201d or helped Chinese companies acquire \u201ccritical technologies\u201d from American companies, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s lending since the turn of the century has been \u201cvastly\u201d larger than previously understood, with loans and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[91434,9877,972,5560,32964,91437,91436,114,4670,1657,91438,184,21855,85,46,1886,91435,1593,1032],"class_list":["post-149601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-aiddata","tag-argentina","tag-australia","tag-beijing","tag-belt-and-road-initiative","tag-brad-parks","tag-brooke-escobar","tag-business","tag-california","tag-china","tag-dakota-access-oil-pipeline","tag-economy","tag-fortune-500","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-new-york","tag-omnivision-technologies","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}