About half of China’s loans to developing countries are ‘hidden,’ study finds

• Between 2000 and 2017, other countries’ debt owed to China soared ten-fold, from less than $500 billion to more than $5 trillion, according to the study from Germany-based think tank the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
• For 50 developing countries which have borrowed from China, that debt has increased on average from less than 1% of their GDP in 2015, to more than 15% in 2017, according to estimates by the study’s researchers.
• The documentation of China’s lending has been at best “opaque,” the report said, with such transactions “missed even by the most ambitious recent attempts to measure international capital flows.”
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