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IMF role revealed

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Reports from Washington reveal that Americans are scrambling to use the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to whip developing nations into abandoning huge infrastructure projects financed by China.

The US lawmakers intend to do this by leaning on the IMF to bail out indebted countries only under terms that prevent them from continuing with existing projects or starting new ones.

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