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BEIJING -- In 2010 China Development Bank lent $20bn to Venezuela, money that the Latin American country agreed to pay back with oil shipments to China.
CDB had been issuing more and more of this kind of loan: huge in scale; to a borrower largely cut off from international finance; and with few policy conditions mentioned in public.
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