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China is financing infrastructure projects around the world – many could harm nature and Indigenous communities

  • Written by Blake Alexander Simmons, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston University
imageChinese engineers pose after welding the first seamless rails for the China-Laos railway in Vientiane, Laos, June 18, 2020.Kaikeo Saiyasane/Xinhua via Getty Images

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