Vladimir Putin on China's Belt and Road

Putin's is a very different view from mine, of the way Chinese foreign investment is done. I think this is because Russia's bilateral trade relations with China are more symmetric than those of countries like Bolivia and Montenegro. But if he is correct when he says, around 3 mins 37 secs, that the Chinese interests are truly stability, and that the focus now is not so much on Chinese companies developing the transport infrastructure in participating countries, but rather on developing the economic and political conditions necessary for healthy trade relations, then that would be reassuring, but I would like to see some independent evidence of this.

The problem is not just the debt. In Bolivia Chinese investment came with a payload of corruption of senior government officials including people with very close ties to the President.