are often issuing risky high interest loans. $843 billion worth of funding spread across 165 countries. here is a prime example. a 400 kilometre railway stretching from south west china across the border into the neighbour, down to its capital. it is a complicated project requiring 75 tunnels and 62 bridges and is costing a lot. $5.9 billion. it is one of the poorest countries in the region and it is shouldering most of the risk. last year it had to sell off $600 million chunk of its energy grid to pay china s of creditors all before the railway even starts operations. loans like the laos deal are often cloaked in confidentiality, so researchers are concerned that the sheikh shaky financing are often
The campaign of Gideon Sa’ar, the conservative rival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, announced on Tuesday that it had suspended its cooperation with four American political strategists affiliated with the Lincoln Project less than a month after they were hired.
“Due to financial considerations, the contract with the consultants is under review, and in the coming days, we will examine the possibility of further cooperation,” a spokesperson for the New Hope party said in a statement.
The suspension comes amid revelations about a cover-up of sexual harassment allegations against one of the co-founders of the Lincoln Project, a super PAC launched by a group of “never Trump” Republicans in 2019. The group’s leaders came under fire last week after six former employees demanded to be released from nondisclosure agreements to reveal more information about John Weaver, an advisor to former Ohio Governor John Kasich and the late Sen. John McCain in their failed bids