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How Dangerous Products Get and Stay on the Market

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Is This Safe to Buy? How Dangerous Products Get and Stay on the Market.
Of the approximately 15,000 product categories the government oversees, only a few require testing before hitting the market
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There Is No Chinese 'Debt Trap'

The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth
Deborah Brautigam
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China, we are told, inveigles poorer countries into taking out loan after loan to build expensive infrastructure that they can’t afford and that will yield few benefits, all with the end goal of Beijing eventually taking control of these assets from its struggling borrowers. As states around the world pile on debt to combat the coronavirus pandemic and bolster flagging economies, fears of such possible seizures have onlyamplified.
Seen this way, China’s internationalization as laid out in programs such as the Belt and Road Initiative is not simply a pursuit of geopolitical influence but also, in some tellings, a weapon. Once a country is weighed down by Chinese loans, like a hapless gambler who borrows from the Mafia, it is Beijing’s puppet and in danger of losing a limb. ....

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