{"id":27569,"date":"2018-12-31T20:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T20:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27569"},"modified":"2018-12-31T20:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T20:22:35","slug":"are-the-wheels-coming-off-chinas-belt-and-road-megaproject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27569","title":{"rendered":"Are the wheels coming off China&#8217;s Belt and Road megaproject?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>Kenya is the latest country where China is frantically defusing a public relations storm over President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/11\/asia\/china-one-belt-one-road-explainer\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Xi Jinping&#8217;s signature Belt and Road megaproject<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a statement Friday, China&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanstand.com\/news\/africa\/east-africa\/chinese-government-gives-its-verdict-on-taking-over-kenyas-main-port\/\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed<\/a> as &#8220;not true&#8221; numerous reports that a key port in Mombasa was at risk of being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanstand.com\/news\/africa\/east-africa\/china-to-take-over-kenyas-main-port-over-unpaid-huge-chinese-loan\/\" target=\"_blank\">seized by Beijing<\/a> over unpaid debts. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hQmumjXYs0Q\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking to journalists<\/a> last week, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta also pushed back, dismissing as &#8220;pure propaganda&#8221; reports based on a <a href=\"https:\/\/standardmedia.co.ke\/business\/article\/2001306837\/auditor-kenya-risks-losing-port-to-china\" target=\"_blank\">leaked letter<\/a> from the country&#8217;s Auditor General warning that assets belonging to the Kenya Port Authority &#8212; including Mombasa&#8217;s massive Kilindini Harbor, the largest port in East Africa &#8212; were listed as collateral for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/business\/Mombasa-port-SGR-loan-default-Chinsa\/2560-4903360-clh5nn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">multi-billion-dollar loan<\/a> to fund a railway project. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)Kenya is the latest country where China is frantically defusing a public relations storm over President Xi Jinping&#8217;s signature Belt and Road megaproject. In a statement Friday, China&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs dismissed as &#8220;not true&#8221; numerous reports that a key port in Mombasa was at risk of being seized by Beijing over&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}