The expensive bail-out of Silk Road part • Table.Briefings

More and more debtors cannot repay their Silk Road loans. China is covering up the problems by discreetly granting bailout loans. This is revealed in a recent study by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. But in this way, Beijing is merely postponing the financial problems.

The Chinese government has to save more and more Silk Road partners from default. By the end of 2021, China will have disbursed 240 billion dollars in bailout loans to more than 20 countries. This is the finding of a new study by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), the World Bank, AidData and the Harvard Kennedy School, which is available to China.Table in advance.

The expensive bail-out of Silk Road partners

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