{"id":399918,"date":"2021-02-10T12:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=399918"},"modified":"2021-02-10T12:21:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:51:11","slug":"belt-and-road-initiative-pakistan-to-seek-debt-relief-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/belt-and-road-initiative-pakistan-to-seek-debt-relief-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Belt and Road Initiative: Pakistan to seek debt relief from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan plans to ask China for relief on payments for power projects Beijing financed over the past eight years, the latest developing nation that\u2019s struggling to repay debt under President Xi Jinping\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>In informal talks, Pakistan and China have discussed easing terms on the repayment of debt on about a dozen power plants, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, who said Islamabad hasn\u2019t made a formal request yet. The parties have canvassed Beijing\u2019s willingness to stagger debt payments, as opposed to lowering equity returns, the person said, requesting anonymity as the plan is private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan plans to ask China for relief on payments for power projects Beijing financed over the past eight years, the latest developing nation that\u2019s struggling to repay debt under President Xi Jinping\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative. In informal talks, Pakistan and China have discussed easing terms on the repayment of debt on about a dozen power plants, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, who said Islamabad hasn\u2019t made a formal request yet. The parties have canvassed Beijing\u2019s willingness to stagger debt payments, as opposed to lowering equity returns, the person said, requesting anonymity as the plan is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}