Chinese developers are constructing high-rise residential towers across the special economic zone that are geared to Chinese investors, unaffordable to the vast majority of Lao. Warning ...

Laos is heavily indebted to and economically dependent on China. Could Vietnam and Thailand offer a way out of its conundrum?

Several cases are frequently cited when discussing China’s so-called debt trap diplomacy: Sri Lanka, Laos, and Malaysia. These examples shed light on how China’s strategy plays out in practice.

Several cases are frequently cited when discussing China’s so-called debt trap diplomacy: Sri Lanka, Laos, and Malaysia. These examples shed light on how China’s strategy plays out in practice.

BEIJING--Laos ... China, Vietnam and Thailand, is opening a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links China's poor southwest to foreign markets but piles on potentially risky debt.

Sri Lanka and China have taken yet another major step towards economic cooperation. In a landmark deal, Sri Lanka has secured ...

The loan is part of a so-called debt-trap diplomacy in which China engagest targets infrastructure projects in poorer countries, a it has done to establish its global Belt and Road initiative.

China is working to address a mounting concern that its ambitious infrastructure drive creates debt traps for participating countries, according to people involved in the drafting of a joint ...