Foreign relations of China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), has full diplomatic relations with 180 out of the other 192 United Nations member states, Cook Islands, Niue and the State of Palestine. As of 2024, China has had the most diplomatic missions of any state.
An Air China Boeing 777 in China-France 50 years anniversary livery
Hu Jintao of China and George W. Bush meet while attending an APEC summit in Santiago de Chile, 2004.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping presented two pandas to Moscow Zoo at a ceremony with Vladimir Putin on 5 June 2019
BRICS leaders at the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, 15 November 2014
Debt-trap diplomacy is a term to describe an international financial relationship where a creditor country or institution extends debt to a borrowing nation partially, or solely, to increase the lender's political leverage. The creditor country is said to extend excessive credit to a debtor country with the intention of extracting economic or political concessions when the debtor country becomes unable to meet its repayment obligations. The conditions of the loans are often not publicized. The borrowed money commonly pays for contractors and materials sourced from the creditor country.
Loans from China to build the Hambantota International Port have been cited as examples of debt-trap diplomacy.