{"id":31857,"date":"2019-02-05T05:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31857"},"modified":"2019-02-05T05:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:22:31","slug":"why-did-china-secretly-scrap-some-of-this-countrys-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31857","title":{"rendered":"Why did China secretly scrap some of this country&#8217;s debt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>When top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi met Cameroon President Paul Biya in the capital Yaounde last month and wrote off a chunk of the African country&#8217;s debt, the deal very nearly went unnoticed. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">China issued no press release, and the Cameroon government did not mention the debt cancellation in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prc.cm\/en\/news\/3313-special-envoy-of-chinese-president-xi-jinping-at-unity-palace\" target=\"_blank\">write-up<\/a> of Yang&#8217;s visit.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It was only when a <a href=\"https:\/\/cn.wsj.com\/articles\/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E6%94%BF%E5%BA%9C%E5%85%8D%E9%99%A4%E5%96%80%E9%BA%A6%E9%9A%86450%E4%BA%BF%E4%B8%AD%E9%9D%9E%E6%B3%95%E9%83%8E%E7%9A%84%E5%80%BA%E5%8A%A1-11548820809?tesla=y\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese news<\/a> report later alleged that Beijing had written off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1137479.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">3 trillion Central African CFA francs<\/a> ($5.2 billion) of Cameroon&#8217;s debt during Yang&#8217;s trip that the existence of a deal emerged. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)When top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi met Cameroon President Paul Biya in the capital Yaounde last month and wrote off a chunk of the African country&#8217;s debt, the deal very nearly went unnoticed. China issued no press release, and the Cameroon government did not mention the debt cancellation in its write-up of Yang&#8217;s visit.It was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31857","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\/31857","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=31857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}