China’s Africa lending model has a split personality

Over the past two decades, China’s rise as the world’s largest bilateral creditor has profoundly altered the global development finance landscape. Yet international scholarship on Chinese sovereign lending — especially to Africa — remains trapped in a binary: Western-centric “debt-trap diplomacy” narratives versus Beijing’s “South-South cooperative altruism” rhetoric. Understanding this requires moving beyond these ideological […]

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