Note: Translated from Spanish using Google Translate.
By AFP
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The "Silk Routes", a Chinese Eurasian investment program, exacerbates countries' indebtedness but at the same time responds to a colossal need for infrastructure in Asia and benefits global trade, the World Bank estimates.
This ambitious program of ports, highways and rail links between Asia and Europe was launched in 2013 by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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According to the Center for Global Development, an ideas laboratory, the Silk Roads increase the risk "significantly" for eight heavily indebted countries, such as Mongolia, Laos, Maldives or Pakistan.
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