Tightening the belt: How is China financing its global ambitions?

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 focused on self-sufficiency, which isn’t always the concern of the population.”

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Written and presented by Dipo Faloyin. Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio editor: Jade Bailey. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.

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