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2025-06-25
How China Lends Dataset, Version 2.0
This dataset contains information about 371 debt contracts between Chinese state-owned creditors and borrowers in 60 low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries.
How China Collateralizes Dataset, Version 1.0
This dataset contains information about China’s portfolio of collateralized loans to borrowing institutions in low-income and middle-income countries that qualify as public and publicly-guaranteed (PPG) debt. It captures 620 collateralized PPG loan commitments worth $418 billion from 31 Chinese state-owned creditors to 158 borrowers in 57 countries between 2000 and 2021.
New report and cache of Chinese debt contracts reveal that the commodity export revenues of developing countries are routed to offshore bank accounts, raising fiscal governance and debt transparency concerns.
