A U.S.-Led Challenge to China’s Global Infrastructure Strategy
Biden’s Build Back Better World partnership aims to offer developing nations an alternative to Chinese financing.
- Sam Bresnick,
- Anarkalee Perera
Anarkalee Perera is a lecturer in international politics and economics at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. She conducts research on China–Sri Lanka relations with a focus on economic development.
Biden’s Build Back Better World partnership aims to offer developing nations an alternative to Chinese financing.
The narrative that China is engaging in problematic debt trap diplomacy has taken off. But for Sri Lanka and most of China’s other Belt and Road Initiative partners, it is important to understand the history and politics of their relations with Beijing and project selection.