List of countries where China has heavily invested and holds political clout

Factual Questions
1

I was googling the subject but came up with very little. Is there such a list readily available?

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And links therein. It’s not a simple, comprehensive, table. But it’s a start in the direction you’re looking.

3

Thanks Ruken. I tried reading through that article but it’s hard to understand in the context of economic or political clout. I was hoping for a simple list somewhat like the Cold War era country affiliations.

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I don’t think the world is as simple as it was during the Cold War. There are many more shades of gray.

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Plus it wasn’t that simple even in the Cold War. India, for instance, was officially non-aligned but tended to favor the Soviets (while Pakistan generally favored the West).

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Is there any country that would not be on this list? China has strong economic ties to everywhere, and economic ties always come with some measure of political clout.

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The “Projects” section has a list of construction and investment, but only seven countries under each column. So they’ve put $32B into construction in Pakistan 2014-2018.

But that doesn’t tell us about things like building a port for Sri Lanka, then basically seizing it because SL couldn’t pay them back. Vs say a country that isn’t going to have trouble making payments. So I think “clout” is going to be hard to quantify.

Trade volume probably factors in too.