{"id":431468,"date":"2021-08-23T08:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T02:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431468"},"modified":"2021-08-23T09:50:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T04:20:17","slug":"afghanistan-may-turn-chinas-belt-and-road-into-a-282-bn-creditor-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/afghanistan-may-turn-chinas-belt-and-road-into-a-282-bn-creditor-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan may turn China&#8217;s Belt and Road into a $282-bn creditor trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hurried withdrawal of the U.S. from Afghanistan \u2014 the 1975 fall of Saigon d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu \u2014 has been heralded as a win for China and an opportunity for Beijing to extend its influence across the region. It\u2019s even been raised as a lesson for Taiwan not to rely on American protection, in the eyes of the Global Times, a state-run tabloid. <\/p>\n<p>However, the ironic truth for China is that the only thing worse than U.S. soldiers near its borders is not having them there at all. Afghanistan is now a big headache for Beijing, which fears chaos there will spill over not just to its restive region of Xinjiang but to Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hurried withdrawal of the U.S. from Afghanistan \u2014 the 1975 fall of Saigon d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu \u2014 has been heralded as a win for China and an opportunity for Beijing to extend its influence across the region. It\u2019s even been raised as a lesson for Taiwan not to rely on American protection, in the eyes of the Global Times, a state-run tabloid. However, the ironic truth for China is that the only thing worse than U.S. soldiers near its borders is not having them there at all. Afghanistan is now a big headache for Beijing, which fears chaos there will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431468","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}