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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Tightening the belt: How is China financing its global ambitions?
Description: China has big global plans – from large infrastructure projects to new economic zones across the globe. How are they funding these projects? Dipo Faloyin is joined by Zongyuan Zoe Liu, author of Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions to follow the money behind China’s infrastructure plans and to find out what the West gets wrong.
“China’s economic success has been presented as an alternative to the Washington consensus.”
“I would caution against the idea that African countries do not have the agency to make their own choices.”
“Xi is very focuse...