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| WSJ: Many Chinese-built Infrastructure Projects Failing Worldwide | |
| 2023-01-22 | |
[Via Newsmax] By Solange Reyner
In Ecuador and Pakistan, officials have discovered cracks in a pair of hydroelectric plants. Uganda identified defects in the Chinese-built Isimba Hydro Power Plant and construction of a hydropower plant further down the Nile has been delayed because of various construction defects, including faulty cables, switches and a fire extinguishing system that needs to be replaced. Locals at a social housing project in Angola are complaining about cracked walls, moldy ceilings, and poor construction. Still, China is receiving payments from countries that borrowed money to build the projects as part of Beijing's BRI, a massive infrastructure project launched in 2013 by Chinese President Xi Jinping that aims to stretch from East Asia to Europe in a bid to boost global trade. China has spent nearly $1 trillion in the last decade building those structures from east Asia to Europe. But some development experts say China is burdening countries with unsustainable debt as it asks for repayment. "We know that China is very opaque about the terms of its assistance," Samantha Custer, the lead report author at AidData, a research lab at William & Mary University, told NPR. "They will include in lending contracts explicit non-disclosure clauses prohibiting the lender from saying how much was borrowed and under what terms." The $2.7 billion Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant in Ecuador could break down quickly because of the defects. "We could lose everything," Fabricio Yépez, an engineer at the University of San Francisco in Quito, who has closely tracked the project's problems, told the Journal. "And we don't know if it could be tomorrow or in six months." "We are suffering today because of the bad quality of equipment and parts" in Chinese-built projects, said René Ortiz, Ecuador's former energy minister and ex-secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Beijing last year reportedly revamped its troubled BRI, and Xi in 2021 noted that the international environment for BRI was becoming "increasingly complex," stressing the need to expand cooperation and strengthen risk controls. | |
| Posted by:Seeking Cure For Ignorance |
| #10 NUMBER 6 GOT IT ! just look at the united states government and that trickle down effect! |
| Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 2023-01-22 13:10 |
| #9 Interesting to check the concrete's Fly Ash (or whatever they use for filler) content. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-01-22 12:35 |
| #8 ^ Fortunately, everything was overspecced on a project like that. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-01-22 11:50 |
| #7 When the Brooklyn Bridge was under construction the supplier of the wire used for the cables substituted the specified wire with a cheap substitute. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2023-01-22 11:48 |
| #6 Is anyone surprised that China builds faulty everything? Communism is one large fraud and only lasts as long as they can get away with it. |
| Posted by: EMS Artifact 2023-01-22 11:11 |
| #5 All these projects are built to the same high standards that China uses for its own projects. I expect that success of Belt and Road despite the results of these projects always being horrible is predicated on a combination of intimidation and bribery. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-01-22 11:08 |
| #4 In a related scheme, when the Transcontinental Railroad was being built, both companies were throwing down anything basically they could get their hands on, as the gov’t paid them as well as signed over vast land tracts for each mile of track laid. In many cases, cottonwood ties didn’t last a year. And the gov’t was aware of this practice. As well as making circuitous routings for completing even more miles. Once the check cleared, so to speak, crews went in and did a realignment as well as replacing crappy bits. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2023-01-22 09:57 |
| #3 Unlike China, we actually prosecute our own Military contractor sentenced in San Diego for multimillion-dollar Africa fraud Micheline Pollock admitted to conspiring to defraud the U.S. through the shoddy construction of military and humanitarian projects in Africa |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-01-22 07:31 |
| #2 Contribute or not, your choice. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-01-22 06:20 |
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| Posted by: Herman Hapsburg8987 2023-01-22 05:02 |