China’s debt-trap diplomacy: Pak to seek debt relief for power projects
In China’s debt-trap diplomacy, Pakistan is struggling to repay loans for power projects under President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and seeks to reschedule as much as USD 22 billion in outstanding credits.
In recent years, Chinese loans have fueled a massive buildout of Pakistan’s power generation, financing that has turned a perennial electricity shortfall into a now-massive capacity surplus that the highly indebted nation can increasingly ill-afford, Asia Times reported.
