China has invested in many infrastructure projects around Eurasia and Africa, including the Eurasian Land Bridge, Sino-Myanmar pipelines and railway and an economic corridor and a port in Pakistan. It also financed a very large port in Sri Lanka, which drew allegations of debt-trap diplomacy when Sri Lanka defaulted on its loans and China took control of the port for 99 years. "The New York Times" characterized this arrangement as China getting Sri Lanka to "cough up a port". "The Washington Post" ran an op-ed stating that "China's debt traps around the world are a trademark of its imperialist ambitions".