Quite a few years ago, in a high level meeting, the Chinese wanted to know how much the US was providing in AID to Pakistan yearly with the intention to match it. When the figures were shared, our Chinese friends literally could not believe. Suffice to say that they realized they could never match the kind of aid the US provides to other countries. And this was at a time when CSF was negligible.
When the Chinese write of debt in their books, they acquire collateral which much reflect in some other ledger which either you may not have or may not have shared. The Chinese are NEVER at a loss!