{"id":626510,"date":"2018-07-04T04:18:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T04:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/07\/04\/how-chinas-financing-and-political-savvy-helps-it-lock-down-key-pieces-of-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2018-07-04T04:18:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T04:18:32","slug":"how-chinas-financing-and-political-savvy-helps-it-lock-down-key-pieces-of-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/07\/04\/how-chinas-financing-and-political-savvy-helps-it-lock-down-key-pieces-of-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"How China\u2019s financing and political savvy helps it lock down key pieces of infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How China uses financing and political savvy to lock down key pieces of infrastructure: <\/strong>Beijing\u2019s canny read on local politics and alleged willingness to throw around bags of cash (literally and metaphorically) allowed it to secure use of a key port in Sri Lanka, giving it \u201ccontrol of territory just a few hundred miles off the shore of a rival, India, and a strategic foothold along a critical commercial and military waterway.\u201d The New York Times has a deeply reported piece looking at how it all came together, positioning it as a cautionary tale on Beijing\u2019s Road and Belt financing initiative. The piece has proven controversial in Sri Lanka, where MPs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/03\/world\/asia\/sri-lanka-port-new-york-times.html#click=https:\/\/t.co\/Su9NK88SZj\">have tried to intimidate two Sri Lankan journalists<\/a> who had worked on it. Former Cairo bureau chief Michael Slackman, now the Times\u2019 foreign editor, issued a press release yesterday rebuking the lawmakers for their attack on the press. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/25\/world\/asia\/china-sri-lanka-port.html\">Read the exhaustive investigation here<\/a> or catch <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/meslackman\/status\/1014115037257109505\">Slackman\u2019s press release here<\/a> on the tweeter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How China uses financing and political savvy to lock down key pieces of infrastructure: Beijing\u2019s canny read on local politics and alleged willingness to throw around bags of cash (literally and metaphorically) allowed it to secure use of a key port in Sri Lanka, giving it \u201ccontrol of territory just a few hundred miles off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7204],"tags":[72,74],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-626510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-were-tracking-today","tag-enterpriseam","tag-what-were-tracking-today","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"f60388d2-7606-4fd4-af4c-c3f486a9b0b1","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"595c3c2b-d1a0-4cf1-bd60-9ba4feaac153","story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2018\/7\/1761.png","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[626507],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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