“…Horn, Reinhart, and Trebesch (2019) report, there were "a total of 1,974 Chinese loans and 2,947 Chinese grants to 152 countries from 1949 to 2017." China will construct ports, railways, pipelines, and even hotels (Liu & Lin, 2018). China intends to extend its influence throughout Eurasia (Cheng, Chen, Degterev, & Zhao, 2019) and even into Latin America through "technology-intensive exports" (Narins, 2018), rivaling the American-dominated transatlantic trading area.…”