駐日米大使、中国の「一帯一路」批判　過剰債務に警鐘

　エマニュエル駐日米大使は２７日、中国主導の巨大経済圏構想「一帯一路」について、「他国の経済発展を促すものではなく、政治・外交的主権を締め付けている」と批判し、途上国の過剰な対中債務問題に警鐘を鳴らした。東京都内の上智大で学生を前に講演した。
　昨年、事実上のデフォルト（債務不履行）状態に陥ったスリランカなどについて、「（対中）債務が国内総生産（ＧＤＰ）比で持続可能な水準を超えるまでに激増した」と警告。こうした国は救済策のため国際通貨基金（ＩＭＦ）をはじめ国際社会に頼ることになったほか、国内の政情不安化を招いたと指摘した。（2023/04/27-17:23）

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel on Thursday called on the Group of Seven major democracies to take unified and collective actions to help developing countries facing China's economic coercion through its Belt and Road Initiative.
   China's Belt and Road global infrastructure development initiative is "not about nurturing the other countries' economic development. It's about actually constricting their political and diplomatic sovereignty," Emanuel said in a speech at Sophia University in Tokyo.
   How to counter China's attempts to use its economic power to impose its will on other countries will be "a prominent topic" at the G-7 summit in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on May 19-21, he said.
   Western nations have accused the Belt and Road Initiative of creating debt traps to exercise stronger influence on nations overburdened by Chinese lending.