Will Form 843 Investing 2011-2023

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China has invested billions of dollars into the continent of Africa to build massive infrastructure projects much of this infrastructure is part of China's belt and Road initiative an estimated one trillion dollar plan to connect the country to trade routes all over the world African leaders like Kenya's ahorro kanata have favorably compared China's investments to earlier projects built by colonial powers well the old railway was built by force and violence against the wishes of those whose land it divided the new railway is built by consent and partnership both between ourselves and China and between the governments which will prosper and profit by it but is China's investment in the continent actually a win-win as some African and Chinese leaders have said or just a new form of colonialism on a continent that's experienced so much of it in this episode we're examining China's belt and Road initiative and what it might mean for Africa while China's belt and Road initiative was only proposed in 2023 the country's first infrastructure project on the African continent was built decades ago the two zara railway completed in 1976 was built to connect copper mines in Zambia to Dar es Salaam Tanzania is former capital the two zara railway was the first infrastructure project built on a pan-african scale China's belt and road projects will be designed with this scale in mind creating new trade routes within and between African countries in 2023 a Chinese firm opened a railway network in Kenya connecting its capital Nairobi to the port city of Mombasa there are already plans to extend this network into South Sudan Uganda Rwanda and Burundi China through its public and private sectors has already loaned about 132 billion dollars to African countries from 2023 to 2023 many observers...