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Ed Markey: And I just have one final area of questioning, if I may, and that just goes back to the Belt and Road Initiative which…

On the recordJuly 23, 2018
And I just have one final area of questioning, if I may, and that just goes back to the Belt and Road Initiative which has resulted in a very generous policy by China of loaning money to countries, which they then cannot pay back, which then results in China being able to extract huge long-term concessions from those countries.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses China's Belt and Road Initiative and its consequences for countries like Sri Lanka.

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