{"id":604,"date":"2018-12-30T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T17:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/?p=604"},"modified":"2018-12-30T12:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T17:34:01","slug":"the-new-chinese-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/30\/the-new-chinese-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Chinese Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/24\/world\/americas\/ecuador-china-dam.html\">Ecuador&#8217;s debts to China<\/a> dropped on Christmas Eve. The LA Times provides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-ecuador-loans-china-20181210-story.html\">more background<\/a>. Both papers are paywalled past a monthly limit, but <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China%E2%80%93Ecuador_relations\">Wikipedia<\/a> is not.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have a similar story from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Chinese-may-take-Mombasa-Port--Ouko\/1056-4902162-xfphu7z\/index.html\">Kenya<\/a>, with denials from both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/2180026\/will-china-seize-prized-port-if-kenya-cant-pay-back-its-belt\">Kenya<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/business\/Port-is-safe-from-SGR-loan--China-now-says\/996-4912882-e8vkpz\/index.html\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story about Ecuador&#8217;s debts to China dropped on Christmas Eve. The LA Times provides more background. Both papers are paywalled past a monthly limit, but Wikipedia is not. Now we have a similar story from Kenya, with denials from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/30\/the-new-chinese-empire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,170,22],"tags":[399,402,400,401,403,182,406,405,404],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-link-blog","category-politics","tag-china","tag-debt","tag-ecuadore","tag-kenya","tag-la-times","tag-ny-times","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-the-nation-kenya","tag-wikipedia"],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}