This article has no "hint claim" that China is the sole lender. In fact, there's no such thing as "the front of the line" when you're the sole lender.
It's an article about Chinese lenders rejecting and sabotaging the traditional practice of lenders working together to avoid a default. They're trying to grab as much as they can for themselves while the debtor falls into chaos. You don't need to be the sole or even majority lender to cause immense pain through short-sighted greed by doing that.
Their intent all along was to wait for the defaults to start pouring in so they can claim all the assets they funded. The speedrun way to plant infrastructure around the globe and manage their own banana republics without raising the hackles of an adversary. Making a deal was never an option.
>You should check Sri Lanka's, Zambia's and Pakistan's foreign debts. You will be absolutely surprised majority of those debts are from American private institutions.
Do you have any data to back your assertion? The quick search I did on Sri Lankan debt suggests something different.
Like a lot of countries, China has a social influence department. China's just seems massive because they pop up everywhere making insanely obvious claims/comments.
They're either just really bad at it, or these attempts just smokescreen their proper influence campaign.
