{"id":11440,"date":"2018-12-28T11:38:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11440"},"modified":"2018-12-28T11:49:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:49:48","slug":"chinas-african-debt-trap-beijing-prepares-to-seize-kenyas-port-of-mombasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/chinas-african-debt-trap-beijing-prepares-to-seize-kenyas-port-of-mombasa\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s African debt-trap: Beijing prepares to seize Kenya&#8217;s port of Mombasa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/5c24a3ace4946-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/5c24a3ace4946.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/5c24a3ace4946-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/5c24a3ace4946-768x501.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">File Photo: Kenyan Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta and Xi Jinping, 2013 (By Associated Press)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Nairobi fails to repay massive debts on shady loan  for underperforming railway, Kenyan infrastructure ripe for the taking:  reports<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Taiwan News,\u00a0<\/strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taiwannews.com.tw\/en\/search?keyword=Duncan DeAeth\">Duncan DeAeth<\/a>,Taiwan News, Staff Writer  &#8211; 12\/27\/2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>African media reports that Kenya may soon be forced to relinquish  control of its largest and most lucrative port in Mombasa to Chinese  control.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>TAIPEI (Taiwan News) \u2013 China may be preparing to seize some  major assets in the African nation of Kenya, as a result of debt-trap  diplomacy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Other assets related to the inland shipment of goods from the port,  including the Inland Container Depot in Nairobi, and the Standard Gauge  Railway (SGR), may also be compromised in the event of a Chinese port  takeover.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Kenya has reportedly taken extremely large loans from the  Communist government for the development of some major highways, and  especially for the SGR, which forms a crucial transport link to and from  Nairobi for the import and export of goods through Mombasa. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View the complete article including image and links at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taiwannews.com.tw\/en\/news\/3605624\">https:\/\/www.taiwannews.com.tw\/en\/news\/3605624<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Photo: Kenyan Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta and Xi Jinping, 2013 (By Associated Press) Nairobi fails to repay massive debts on shady loan for underperforming railway, Kenyan infrastructure ripe for the taking: reports Taiwan News,\u00a0By\u00a0Duncan DeAeth,Taiwan News, Staff Writer &#8211; 12\/27\/2018 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/chinas-african-debt-trap-beijing-prepares-to-seize-kenyas-port-of-mombasa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11455,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440\/revisions\/11455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}