Is there a way to determine if a country engages in debt-trap diplomacy? There are people accusing China in engaging in debt-trap diplomacy, but China keeps renegotiating and cancelling debt while it is lending at a much lower rate than commercial lenders from Europe and the United States. So how can we measure or assess that a country does it objectively and are there other countries than China practicing debt-trap diplomacy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-trap_diplomacy

> Debt-trap diplomacy is an international financial relationship where a
> creditor country or institution extends debt to a borrowing nation
> partially, or solely, to increase the lender's political leverage. The
> creditor country is said to extend excessive credit to a debtor
> country with the intention of extracting economic or political
> concessions when the debtor country becomes unable to meet its
> repayment obligations.[1] The conditions of the loans are often not
> publicized.[2] The borrowed money commonly pays for contractors and
> materials sourced from the creditor country.
> 
> The term was coined by Indian academic Brahma Chellaney to describe
> how the Chinese government leverages the debt burden of smaller
> countries for geopolitical ends.[3][4] Other analysts have described
> the idea of a Chinese debt trap as a "myth" or
> "distraction".[5][6][7][8]