eating cultures around the world, people learn to classify small handful of animals of edible and all the rest they classify as disgusting. w series about a complex relationship with animals. the great debate, what's, you know on youtube, dw documentary. the do you love, take talk shop on the table? do you own a walk away or tell me phone? well, chinese companies like these have been accused of spying on the customers. never the less that products continue to be popular world wide, and many governments deployed chinese tech to is tech made inside on no different than tech developed in other countries. especially risks for you as a consumer and for state security. china of assets to become established as a big scale tech supply, a can be clearly seen in africa in some countries like kenya,

chinese technology even lies on the ground. an internet superhighway called the piece cable for next pack is done east africa and to europe. it is part of the digital so growth china's band to expand its digital influence around the world. for years, china has been making deals with political leaders, especially in the global south to build small cities and install surveillance cameras, sometimes china, even for the bill. so how does this take benefits citizens the on the c p is cable brings past them all by internet to can yeah, for example, with most people use cell phones to get online anyway. but where do these cellphones come from? i'm using, i mean, i'll put it into to with samsung 830 and i use samsung on. i'm using a techno above 3 more than 60 percent of the people we spoke to, and i robi, can you use phones made by chinese companies? anthony a while ago uses 2 phones,

one for mobile money transfers and one for internet. this one is samsung galaxy at 10 s. and this one is a 10, according to multiple lunney pelt alarm researches chinese businesses in africa. this is exactly the market. chinese phone makers, i've tried to capture an average african part of the hope was to cellphones. and those 2 cellphones, one has the one is connected to say for example, n t n, a network provider, one is connected to said zane, another network provider. and because of, um, let's say connectivity issues on a particular day, the network might be down on the same thing, but then he will walk on an empty ensign. so in that sense, it just fits the price point. a lot of washington's i looking for, i mean, if it's the needs of african african consumers, maybe muscles and you're more expensive product, like i said, for example,

phones with to sim cards or cameras that capture a wide range of skin towns have made chinese smartphones popular and can you, anthony can hang up, who manages of phone repair center? i've seen the market change over time and no killing the 1st time in the country. then you meet with the people to chinese funds which can we the fact screen? can we better comment on big screen sites and most the young people, especially, are pretty fighting to go through the chinese strand because of price value. these phones used to be cheap alternatives, but now manufacturers are matching the quality of their competitors. but there are still significant ways that they can't compare based on my experience, you use it for both tvs and then you start facing facing issues with optics of stuff. yeah. and issues of by teaching dues and the fights are not available, but i think it's very affordable. what people prefer to go with,

they take off the via phone 3 as you dump it and you get another one. okay, that's not a very long lived span. still, chinese smartphones are popular and can yeah, because the affordable and tailored to the needs of african consumers. so what is china's aim? we spoke to kobus on starting research as chinese investments in africa for the south african institute of international affairs. they're looking for overseas markets and opportunities, but they're also looking for to, to, to act as a kind of a norm set to on the, on the logic kind of like, you know, player in, in, in the world. so it's looking to, to make the rest of the world friendly or to chinese companies for new to chinese stand of. so china's engagement around the world, fuels the tech economy, back home, the more time these technology sold overseas. the more the systems and processes become the norm, which in turn helps them sell even more products. it also means china plays

a powerful role in shaping the future of technology. the international institute for us to teach a study says china has been participating in digital infrastructure projects. in 137 countries. it's investing billions of yours. let's take a closer look at one example, a smart city in the making. just outside of nairobi, kenya is africa's vers plan smart city. it's called the console tech novelist, and it's been 10 years in the making. when cons that is done, it's supposed to look like this. uh, high tech always is outside of the urban hospital. while companies from countries like italy and south korea build apartments and schools, chinese companies take care of tech, the like this surveillance center built by chinese telecoms company. well, way it's connected to

a network of cameras. the data from the camera travels through underground internet cables to a data center, also built in part by wall away. the internet, the cameras and data storage are all connected, says lucas, oma lo, who manages tons of data center with the allies, that in addition to connectivity to the, to the quit, we needed a place value with the computer type, compute, and betterment. where all these different let them to collect themselves, us whom come at us from this much. it would be host and to be analyzed. some have raised security concerns about working with while way, but also believes the team is prepared. if you focus on the vendor, then you missed the point. so we have good, continuous planning. why don't we go to a light that a of the engineers network executed a specialist while the primary invest bookcase really?

we're looking we have and i'd just like us. so then i realize that it's hired a company, there's a q a for as a cloud, we partner with microsoft, for example, being some of the sort of shows that, that, that uh, mike, look at a us company. so we don't limit this to where we can use cons, that isn't the only place storing sensitive information. and while way data centers, senegal agreed to migrate its government data from 4 in servers to its own while we build data center in 2021 and pakistan signed off on an agreement to get one as well in 2019 research remote elani pell to law. says there's a reason countries take on these projects, chinese finances of play. the michel really liked the dominance of bonds time these companies in in fact in africa. so technically, equipment manufacturers like um while way like um betsy to i me slow um, quantitative price in cost effective equipment and put option solutions. so it's

played a really huge impact for some countries, china is also is attractive, better digital infrastructure, cheap loans and technicians who help implement the systems. but it's not always clear if the tech benefits citizens or the people in power at busy highways and intersections across kampala, there are chinese surveillance cameras. the government purchased them for more than 100000000 years. the cameras are equipped with software that recognizes spaces and scans license plates. guns and officials and local journalists have said that some of them are neither monitoring nor recording crimes . members of parliament even called for a review of the cameras after they failed to capture footage of a police officers killing it's a claim that uses so one you know from you've gone this. police force denies

that additional. cctv no tracking, it's like true. the system is working and it's really supportive to, to, to fight, to increase the surveillance cameras had been in use since 2018. they footages the evidence which is driving from the city to the office. from the city resisting his undisputable and the task of reduced to dressed because when they come back, look, we have seen a reduction the in the there with the behaves. yeah, they, the people are, there was a be so one day road. we have seen a reduction in a bad rise and so forth in the, in the a bunch of safety and simply because of co service. people are now more responsive . the cameras are part of why ways save city programs designed by the chinese telecoms company to deploy surveillance to technology world wide. safe city technology reportedly helps police to monitor the cell phones if you've gone to an

opposition candidate, bobby wine. in 2021 wine last against you, wearing the 70 you kind as president for 35 years. this is why lawyer and digital privacy advocates said paula allen could because he says it doesn't matter if the cameras work. their true purpose is to deter political opposition that we use to single participation. do use it now to compare to the most christians. it is easy to know on truck what addition chinese companies may be supplying the technology, but you can't as government is deploying it, that for you to pay to steam for it. so the, anything possible why waste save city project is global with 52 countries participating? according to washington, dc based think tank csr. yes. 71 percent of these agreements are in countries considered partly free for not free. and let's be clear tech used for digital

repression is not only exported by china, but by western democracies too. so what's the difference reports like this might be the answer. allegedly computers in the african union headquarters in ethiopia, a building funded by china, was secretly sending data to service in shanghai every night. why this data was allegedly transferred remains aren't clear, but it's supposed to have been going on for 5 years. time denies any wrongdoing, but experts say this is an example of why there are concerns about working with chinese tech designs. so what about us the private use is does it make a difference whether it's k move take talk or google that takes our data? one difference is the time these companies not in a position to refuse handing over the data to the chinese government, is a lot of, of allegations that they uh, um, what's called the kind of digital back tools kind of built into, into networks. and that's, you know, that with, in some ways,

enable surveillance or aspiring level so, but it's not nearly the global self law just concern. like i think a lot of the stuff countries are a lot more worried about just getting digital access and the space and paying for china as technology has a global impact. many nations are willing to co operate in order to speed up digitalization, for example, in africa, southeast asia, latin america, eastern europe, and the middle east. but do these tech and pause mean great? the chinese influenza. whether as dave leaders or private uses, we should all can see that how much we use is made in china. you will read about data security, or do you think the benefits of chinese technology outweigh the risk that doesn't know by and see you next time, the

enjoying the view, and come to take a look at this, out to the highlights every week in your inbox, subscribe now, imagine so many portions of lots of turn out in the world right now. the climate change. the story. this is much less the way from just one week. how much was going to really get we still have time to act. i'm going what's the subscriber for moving is like the fast fashion as an environmental nightmare. a closing graveyard image of land desert. this is where things wealthy industrial nations no longer need, and the lightest textile waste gets stranded here.

all about the final stuff in the global fashion industry. fast fashion. watch now on youtube, the and it's getting closer to the road and it's getting closer to our homes and slowly being destroyed by the course of climate change. next to yeah, lives in kira bass, a south pacific nation whose very existence is under threat. rising sea levels mean the entire country could soon become uninhabitable. we're not going to run from the program, so you going to face it. there are countries in the world we have islands and they build that i less because they have to be do you have

a technology and they have the the $120000.00 residents of q robust. want to stay here and protect themselves as best as they can. but how long can that know? the, when we were kids, the high tide use the stops maybe here from here. you stop. see it. and now then as we grow, growing up the high tide just moved, moved and now it's hitting the, the land, it's sitting the edge and it's getting it's corrupting everything.