As the global economy is moving towards recession, African countries, where China has leveraged lopsided loans for geopolitical gain, are in debt distress and need alternatives fast.
African countries feel that they have been trapped in Beijing's debt circle after China showed reluctance in lending financial support to them and diplomatic analysts described this move as a disturbing trend.
Developing countries are moving toward China's debt trap and Daily Times, a Pakistani newspaper, is suggesting Pakistan that necessary measures may be taken to avoid Islamabad going Colombo's way
It is predicted that Chinese premier Xi Jinping's re-election as the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the head of the state for the next five years will witness more hard-lined policies with regard to the economy, foreign relations, human rights and public dissent.
Pakistan has a large amount of debt, high inflation, a spike in unemployment and a lot of other macroeconomic problems which clearly show the multiple challenges faced by the country.
Following the global rating agencies Moody's and Fitch downgrading Pakistan's credit rating in recent weeks, Islamabad's risk of default spiked to a 13-year high of 52.8 per cent.
Focusing on deep-rooted, long-term economic vulnerabilities that led to sovereign default in Sri Lanka - the first time in the country's history - Umesh Moramudali, a Lecturer at the University of Colombo and Researcher on Public Debt & Development, pondered why Sri Lanka had come to thi
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