The China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies posted on 1 April 2020 an analysis titled "Is China Hiding Its Overseas Lending? Horn, Reinhart and Trebesch's 'Hidden Loans' and Hidden Data" by Deborah Brautigam and Kevin Acker.
This analysis looks at competing ways to determine the amount of debt China holds in African countries and the discrepancies in the way data is handled. The China Africa Research Initiative, which takes issue with another recent analysis, does agree that a number of African countries have worrying debt concerns, and China is a substantial lender on the continent.
