What Motivates China's Overseas Lending?

Including lending by state owned enterprises, China appears to be the world’s biggest official creditor. Critics emphasize its lack of loan transparency. Some accuse China of using loans as tools to gain political or even territorial control. Are such criticisms fair? And what really motivates China's overseas lending. Pippa Morgan (Duke Kunshan)is a specialist in the political economy of China's foreign economic relations and joins us to talk about these questions.

Producer: Leanna Doty