TY - BOOK AU - CHELLANEY Brahma TI - China's creditor imperialism PY - 2018/// KW - GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY KW - IMPERIAL POWERS KW - SOVEREIGN DEBT KW - DEBT-TRAP DIPLOMACY KW - BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE N2 - Just as the European imperial powers employed the gunboat diplomacy, the author claims that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is using "debt-trap diplomacy" to bend other states to China ER -