====== Debt trap diplomacy ======

The core of the debt trap diplomacy narrative is the allegation that China's willingness to loan other states the funds to develop amounts to a 'trap' where countries are obliged to defend China on matters of human rights and territorial disputes. Accusations of corruption in obtaining loans is often a characteristic of reporting.

===== Stories of corruption and loans =====

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVdqJM86NC8 | Anger grows in Hungary over China's university plans in Budapest - DW News]] - Critical analysis of this [[DW Budapest university story]].