Even that doesn't add up. First of all, I bet that figure represents only the debt specific to this China deal, on top of whatever other debt they already had.

Even that doesn't add up. First of all, I bet that figure represents only the debt specific to this China deal, on top of whatever other debt they already had. Secondly, Djibouti's GDP was $1.7 billion (or thousand million in British wording), but the only debt figure stated was $14 billion as China's overall investment. That's like 800% of GDP using those raw figures. The truth is probably somewhere else.