An oft-cited example is a Sri Lankan port that the government ended up leasing to a Chinese company for 99 years.

Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/nation/story/2023-10-16/how-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-is-changing-after-a-decade-of-big-projects-and-big-debts

Despite the oft-cited role of military power in creating and maintaining them, individuals have often emerged from the covert realm to play surprisingly significant parts in the making of the postmodern version of empire.

Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/10/22/moscows-man-in-africa-yevgeny-prigozhin-and-the-collapse-of-the-french-empire_partner/

If one goes by volume alone, this oft-cited neoliberal think-tank that spawned hundreds of fraudulent headlines and TV news segments may go down as the single greatest case of media fabulism in American history.

Source: https://theava.com/archives/209732