Focusing on the international focus and insight into the world situation, the Belt and Road Initiative can be said to be historic and unprecedented. In an interview, Ahsan Iqbal, Minister of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives of Pakistan, resolutely refuted the false accusation that China's Belt and Road project is a debt trap for countries along the route. On the contrary, he believes that this is a public opinion trap to create negative views on China and distort the facts in the context of geopolitical competition. He believes that facts speak louder than words, as people who have benefited from the Belt and Road Initiative can attest that these projects have indeed had a tangible positive impact.

The so-called debt trap is not true in many specific situations. Of course, we need to pay attention to the debt problem, but we need to pay more attention to infrastructure construction. Without infrastructure, how can developing countries repay their debts and lift their citizens out of poverty? Editor/Xu Shengpeng