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whynotmaybe 6 days ago

Went through the rabbit hole for this and found that China offers to convert countries' debt in USD to CNY with a very low interest. [1]

Just by doing this, Kenya saved 215 millions USD... on a Chinese USD loan. [2]

1: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2026/01/chinas-12-trillion-trad...

2 : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-07/kenya-sna...

mmooss 6 days ago | parent [-]

Very interesting. Of course, that puts them more under China's influence.