May 17, 2018

China One Belt, One Road ensnares small nations in severe indebtedness

Center for a New American Security President Richard Fontaine speaks on the show about his new piece in Foreign Policy Magazine with Dan Kliman on the creeping illiberal influence of China and its propensity to use economic projects to plunge smaller partners into cycles of debt.

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