While there are certainly positive gains from the initiative, perhaps not all investments were good decisions. Is it worth getting involved in perhaps one of the largest economic revolutionary developments in the history of modern civilization?
Sri Lanka's Hambantota port was confiscated by the Chinese government in response for not complying to investment payments. (Shaw, CNBS, 2018).
Here lies a question: Is there actual due diligence being done to ensure that the initiative as promised by President XI, to be mutually diplomatic and economically prosperous for all those involved?
Perhaps time will tell. This notion is called "Debt-trap diplomacy," concept of luring developing and or underdeveloped nations into the initiative as possible investors.
Is this manipulation or just good business?
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