Many who don’t look upon the BRI favorably have been calling the BRI China’s “Debt Trap Diplomacy”. Amongst the deluge of “fake news”, we here at the Belt and Road Advisory decided to take a hard look at the available data. In addition to this research we also stuck to our usual style of actually asking the people involved in the deals and others on the ground or in the know. This infographic tells the real story as we see it here at the Belt and Road Advisory.