{"id":277120,"date":"2019-05-18T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiO2h0dHBzOi8vcmFkaW94LmNoL25ld3MtYXJjaGl2L2hvZXJib3gtc2FtdWVsLXNjaGxhZWZsaS5odG1s0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:54:39","slug":"radio-x-aired-samuel-schlaeflis-reportage-on-chinese-money-and-daily-life-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277120","title":{"rendered":"Radio X aired Samuel Schlaefli\u2019s reportage on Chinese money and daily life in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Basel\u2019s Radio X scheduled freelance journalist Samuel Schlaefli\u2019s multiphase reportage on Chinese presence in Ethiopia, after he spent weeks talking with people in and around Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-468257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Radio X aired Samuel Schlaefli\u2019s reportage on Chinese money and daily life in Ethiopia\" \/>\n<p>The station noted that Ethiopia had taken on the order of $13.7 billion in Chinese loans between 2000 and 2017, second only to Angola in that reckoning, and asked whether the money meant needed infrastructure or a deeper debt and dependency trap.<\/p>\n<p>Schlaefli\u2019s audio walked listeners through a fast-changing capital that critics called a skeleton city of cranes and unfinished promise, between poverty and future talk.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as China\u2013Horn archive, the German-language radio file is a dated European documentary companion to loan tallies and industrial-park debates from the same years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/radiox.ch\/news-archiv\/hoerbox-samuel-schlaefli.html\">Radio X<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinesische Pr\u00e4senz in \u00c4thiopien. Eine Reportage.&nbsp;&nbsp;Radio XDer freischaffende Basler Journalist Samuel Schlaefli hat mehrere Wochen in \u00c4thiopien gelebt und sich mit den Menschen vor Ort unterhalten. Die H\u00f6rbox am &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":468257,"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-277120","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\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=1280%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a5G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277120","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=277120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754804,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277120\/revisions\/754804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}