The report found that the primary reason behind China’s military deployment was to safeguard Chinese infrastructure projects and Chinese expatriates who were working at these projects in Africa under China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR, also known as Belt

Conte then endorsed the CCP's "One Belt, One Road" development plan, making Italy the first G-7 nation to do so.

China's Ambassador to Nepal Yu Hong and Nepal's Foreign Secretary Shankar Das Bairagi exchange documents during a signing ceremony relating to the One Belt, One Road initiative in Kathmandu on May 12, 2017.

These include endeavours such as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an ambitious infrastructure plan to establish China-centred land and maritime trade routes, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China’s version of the World Bank, in which

The addition of a great northern route to China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative has prompted several assessments about Beijing’s intentions and its prospects for successfully developing a China-dominated Arctic pathway.

The Belt and Road initiative came in and used debt diplomacy. Look what has happened in Ecuador.

Colum Lynch, “China Enlists UN to Promote Its Belt and Road Project,” Foreign Policy, May 10, 2018, https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/10/china-enlists-u-n-to-promote-its-belt-and-road-project. 13.

They have something called the Belt and Road Initiative in the developing world where they fund major infrastructure projects, use Chinese labor, build these needed infrastructure projects in the third world, and ultimately create a debt trap dependency

OBOR and Seaports Under the framework of “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR, also known as Belt and Road), Beijing has sought to finance infrastructure projects in more than 60 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

CEFC, as you say, was the capitalist arm of President Xi's Belt and Road Initiative.

That's exactly what they did in the Belt and Road Initiative. What was Warren Buffett saying now? Oh, trade deficits don't matter. Jason Furman said, there's a certain percentage where you cannot have a trade deficit larger than a percent of GDP.

Eiji Furukawa, “Belt and Road Debt Trap Spreads to Central Asia,” Nikkei Asian Review, August 29, 2018, https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Belt-and-Road/Belt-and-Road-debt-trap-spreads-to-Central-Asia. 38.