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Nigeria and The Chinese Debt Trap by clydedaniels(m): 11:20am On Oct 06, 2020
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka — Every time Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, turned to his Chinese allies for loans and assistance with an ambitious port project, the answer was yes.

Yes, though feasibility studies said the port wouldn’t work. Yes, though other frequent lenders like India had refused. Yes, though Sri Lanka’s debt was ballooning rapidly under Mr. Rajapaksa.

Over years of construction and renegotiation with China Harbor Engineering Company, one of Beijing’s largest state-owned enterprises, the Hambantota Port Development Project distinguished itself mostly by failing, as predicted. With tens of thousands of ships passing by along one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, the port drew only 34 ships in 2012.

And then the port became China’s.

Mr. Rajapaksa was voted out of office in 2015, but Sri Lanka’s new government struggled to make payments on the debt he had taken on. Under heavy pressure and after months of negotiations with the Chinese, the government handed over the port and 15,000 acres of land around it for 99 years in December.

The transfer gave China control of territory just a few hundred miles off the shores of a rival, India, and a strategic foothold along a critical commercial and military waterway.

Today Nigeria is on the same trajectory.
1. Nnamdi azikiwe airport Abuja CCECC
2. Omagwa internation phc - CCECC
3. Muritala mohammed lagas - CCECC

Today we currently owe china over $3.1bn as at march 2020.

In no distant time we might have cede our airports to china to repay these debts.

These are just loud thoughts... And foy your information

Ref
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lanka-port.html
Re: Nigeria and The Chinese Debt Trap by visiondee(m): 11:26am On Oct 06, 2020
Bros @OP, I hear say dem don share the debt equally say na 100k+ each Nigerian dey owe... How far? you don pay your own? If you no get mind to pay later, gather here I wan write name give Oga at Aso ville
Re: Nigeria and The Chinese Debt Trap by clydedaniels(m): 1:05pm On Oct 06, 2020
visiondee:
Bros @OP, I hear say dem don share the debt equally say na 100k+ each Nigerian dey owe... How far? you don pay your own? If you no get mind to pay later, gather here I wan write name give Oga at Aso ville

Bros by this $3.1bn alone with population of 200m na just N15.5k you owe china for now..

Just open seperate account keep am in case...

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