countries have become heavily dependent on chinese financing and a recent study by the center for global development a us think tank has raised serious concerns about the sustainability of sovereign debt in several african countries receiving belts and road funds. or is it really a win win relationships a little earlier i spoke to alexander the missing the founding the director of the china africa advisory with cheese in ping pledging sixty billion dollars of investment i asked if that neutralizes the criticism jamie received about the debt attached to china's infrastructure projects. yes it's true that president xi jinping today announced that china will give for the next three years sixty billion u.s. dollars in different type of you know credits and concessional loans and it's a trial this gives african countries another opportunity to advance their infrastructure needs to to build factories to create jobs which is badly needed and on the continent and china is definitely contributing a lot in this in this regard. the same time we have seen a lot of criticism coming from especially from western p

countries have become heavily dependent on chinese financing and a recent study by the center for global development a u.s. think tank has raised serious concerns about the sustainability of sovereign debt in several african countries receiving belt and road funds. and for more on this i'm joined now by our correspondent in nairobi catherine one day good to see you catherine now there is growing criticism that chinese infrastructure projects are pushing african nations into debt to what extent. well since two thousand and fifteen through the full crack meeting in johannesburg when president xi jinping pledged sixty billion dollars in financing in various sectors like trade and industrialization we've seen you know an uptake of loans by african countries and african governments so far the chinese africa research institute puts three countries in africa which do all that debt to china and it's it's a worrying trend and that's the beauty which holds about seventy seven percent of its national debt to china the democratic republic of congo which china's seven point one billion dollars and which i was tr

countries have become heavily dependent on chinese financing and a recent study by the center for global development a u.s. think tank has raised serious concerns about the sustainability of sovereign debt in several african countries receiving belt and road funds. african leaders are meeting today with the chinese government at the forum on china africa cooperation in beijing now let's bring in our correspondent catherine catherine from the kenyan capital nairobi catherine there is growing criticism that chinese infrastructure projects are pushing african nations into debt how big is the problem of debt in kenya for example where you are. well maybe just to give viewers a background the i.m.f. puts you know at least forty percent of african countries are in debt distress now when you look at kenya for example if you look at our debt to g.d.p. ratio it stands at sixty percent which is just to the ring of the edge but the countries in this on the continent that can attribute that debt crisis to china or loans from china and that includes djibouti which is about seventy seventy seven percent of its na

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countries have become heavily dependent on chinese financing and a recent study by the center for global development a us think tank has raised serious concerns about the sustainability of sovereign debt in several african countries receiving belt and road funds. and for more on this i'm joined now by our correspondent in nairobi catherine one day good to see you catherine now there is growing criticism that chinese infrastructure projects are pushing african nations into debt to what extent. well since two thousand and fifteen during the full cac meeting in johannesburg when president xi jinping pledged sixty billion dollars in financing in various sectors like trade and industrialization we've seen you know an uptake of loans by african countries and african governments so far the chinese africa research institute puts three countries in africa which do all that debt to china and it's a worrying trend and that's the beauty which is about seventy seven percent of its national debt to china the democratic republic of congo which china seven point one billion dollars and which i was trying to six poi

countries have become heavily dependent on chinese financing and a recent study by the center for global development a us think tank has raised serious concerns about the sustainability of sovereign debt in several african countries receiving belts and road funds. let's bring in alexandra de mis is a founding director of the china africa advisory xi jinping pledge sixty billion dollars of investment in africa today with no strings attached does that neutralize the criticism is receiving about all the debt attached to china's infrastructure projects. yes it's true that presidency jinping today announced that china will give for the next three years take sixty billion u.s. dollars in different type of you know credits and concessional loans and aid etc this gives african countries another opportunity to advance their infrastructure needs to to build factories to create jobs which is badly needed and on the continent and china is definitely contributing a lot in this in this regard. at the same time we have seen a lot of criticism coming from especially from western press or western countries and chine

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