{"id":9286,"date":"2021-01-16T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3117997\/china-africa-relations-beijings-financial-aid-leans-towards"},"modified":"2021-01-16T22:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T22:00:18","slug":"china-africa-relations-beijings-financial-aid-leans-towards-grants-away-from-cheap-loans-white-paper-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/china-africa-relations-beijings-financial-aid-leans-towards-grants-away-from-cheap-loans-white-paper-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"China-Africa relations: Beijing\u2019s financial aid leans towards grants, away from cheap loans, white paper shows"},"content":{"rendered":"From Zimbabwe\u2019s US$140 million six-storey parliament building to the US$200 million African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, grandiose symbols of China\u2019s financial aid are popping up across Africa.As well as paying for soccer stadiums and government buildings in the Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Mozambique and Sierra Leone, Beijing has funded presidential palaces to Togo, Sudan, Burundi and Guinea-Bissau among others through grants and interest-free loans.China says the projects are intended to\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3117997\/china-africa-relations-beijings-financial-aid-leans-towards\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Zimbabwe\u2019s US$140 million six-storey parliament building to the US$200 million African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, grandiose symbols of China\u2019s financial aid are popping up across Africa.As well as paying for soccer stadiums and government &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":932,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9287,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions\/9287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}