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Dragon in Elephant's backyard: The Chinese South Asian debt trap
China’s Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) lending strategy impels its partners into the grip of a debt trap in South Asia. The International Debt Report 2023 (IDR2023) of the World Bank signalled debt crisis risks posing enormous challenges to many Low-and …