The embassy of the Chinese resident office refutes

On August 20, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the Solomon Islands answered the reporter, the full text is as follows:

Question: Recently, the government of the Solomon Islands has announced an agreement with Chinese enterprises to build 161 communications towers nationwide for national broadband network construction. In China's "debt trap", what are the Chinese comments on this?

Answer: The Chinese government encourages and supports strong and reputable Chinese companies to carry out foreign exchanges and cooperation. The backward infrastructure and other infrastructure of the Solomon Islands has long been a bottleneck that restricts economic and social development. The people have an urgent need for the people to protect the level of mobile communication services and provide services for the Pacific Games in 2023. We respect the government's government and financial institutions on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, and discuss related cooperation in business principles.

The so -called "Chinese debt trap" is a downright pseudo -proposition. It is a "discourse trap" that some unique people are used to interfere and destroy mutual benefit cooperation between China. Over the years, China has provided a large number of low interest rates and long -term preferential loans based on the needs of developing countries to help developing countries improve infrastructure and promote economic development. Among these developing countries' foreign debt, debt to China is far lower than the international capital markets and multilateral financial institutions led by Western countries. China will continue to work with the major developing countries including the Solomon Islands, fully implement the global development initiative, and build a “Belt and Road” with high quality, so that the results of common development will better benefit people from all countries.

Source: Chinese Embassy in the Solomon Islands

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