{"id":273865,"date":"2019-04-23T02:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T06:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiP2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnJ0ZS5pZS9uZXdzL3dvcmxkLzIwMTkvMDQyMy8xMDQ1MDY0LWV0aGlvcGlhLWNoaW5hL9IBH2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnJ0ZS5pZS9hbXAvMTA0NTA2NC8?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:22:38","slug":"rte-on-ethiopias-chinese-debt-dream-and-the-bill-coming-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273865","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 on Ethiopia\u2019s Chinese debt dream and the bill coming due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RT\u00c9\u2019s Jackie Fox reported from Ethiopia in April 2019 on a country struggling to repay <strong>billions<\/strong> in Chinese-linked debt after Beijing-backed roads, rail, and industrial projects reshaped the skyline and the balance sheet.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-468264\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopia-Nears-Default-Indicating-Increased-Debt-Pressures-on-Developing-Countries.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"RT\u00c9 on Ethiopia\u2019s Chinese debt dream and the bill coming due\" \/>\n<p>The piece traced the bargain: fast infrastructure and political cover in exchange for loans, contractors, and strategic footholds. Addis Ababa\u2019s light rail and industrial parks became symbols. Repayment schedules and forex scarcity became the hangover.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government inherited much of the debt architecture yet kept courting Belt and Road forums. Officials talked win-win while communities near projects lived with land loss, labor complaints, and unfinished promises.<\/p>\n<p>As geopolitics reference, the RT\u00c9 file still works. China\u2019s role in Ethiopia is neither cartoon villainy nor miracle aid. It is leverage, and Horn readers need the ledger, not the ribbon-cutting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/world\/2019\/0423\/1045064-ethiopia-china\/\">RT\u00c9<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia and the Chinese dream in Africa&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ieJackie Fox of RT\u00c9&#8217;s foreign staff visits Ethiopia as the country struggles to pay back billions of euro in debt to China after the communist country helped to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":468264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopia-Nears-Default-Indicating-Increased-Debt-Pressures-on-Developing-Countries.jpg?fit=1200%2C803&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19fb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601054,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273865\/revisions\/601054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}