China is becoming more confident all the while in setting up international public-private partnerships, though many African countries still worry about a repeat of the debt crisis in the 1980s and 1990s when nations could not pay off debt, Ryder says in an African Business commentary. International organizations ultimately wrote off that wave of unaffordable debt with conditions including opening "their economies to international trade, liberalize their currencies and drastically cut costs in exchange for loans," wrote Peter Fabricius in the Institute for Security Studies. 
China ikuyamba kulimba mtima mu nthawi yonseyi pakupanga maubale ndi mayiko a kunja ngakhale mayiko ambili a ku Africa akanai ndi nkhawa zokhudzana ndi vuto lakubwereza kwa ngongole mu zaka za ma 1980 ndi mma 1990 pamene mayiko anakanika kubweza ngongole, Yrdey akutero mu ndemanga yake  mu African Business Commentary.Mabungwe a mayiko angapo anazichotsa izi zakuti mphepo ya ngongole zosakwanitsika zomwe zili ndi zifukwa kuphatikizapo kutsegura chuma chawo ku malonda ndi mayiko ena ,..............., komanso kutsitsa mitengo kwambili posinthana ndi ngongole," Peter Fabrics analemba mu Institute for Security Studies.