For years, Washington has been warning others not to trust loans from Chinese state banks fuelling its rise as a superpower. But a new report reveals an ironic twist: The United States is the biggest recipient of all — by far. And the security and technology implications have yet to be fully understood.
China’s state lenders have funnelled $200 billion (€172.48bn) into US businesses for a quarter of a century, but many of the loans have been kept secret because the money was first routed through shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Delaware, and elsewhere that helped obscure their origins. That's according to AidData, a research lab at the College of William & Mary in Virginia.
