beijing is leading the world in a merry dance with some fans are clearly singing to the new so grow chuen. a lot of developing economies in africa have signed up to the project and they have been complaints cancellations ad renegotiating joy dorie vera is covering this for us from nairobi joy what's the general feeling in africa about the belt road the general feeling about the belgian role and that a lot of critics in africa think that it's one way china is welshing its economic imperialism legend across the african continent and the world as well because as we see these just about one hundred ninety two dollars that's coming to africa from china alone and that actually has people a bit of a fear that while china is backing most of africa's infrastructure projects these also this sense also manipulation or will manipulation that is being viewed by almost all the economists across the african continent to once china. if it's clear to you that it's a one way street how did kenya get itself into so much debt by signing up to the project in the first place. well ken just like most of the oth

beijing is leading the world in a merry dance with some fans are clearly singing to the new silk road chuen. well andrea hang is our asia correspondent in singapore cliff it couldn't spend fifteen years reporting in china plate it will stop with you let's look at the numbers trying to spend one hundred fifty billion euros on the belt road so far loans total around a trillion can we already gain some sort of sense if they're working on a level playing field here with other countries well i think it varies from country to country but definitely people are countries along the route are very are very keen to take advantage of the money that's on offer so they want to get as much as possible obviously and china is going to possibly leverage that then to have more influence in the area but a lot of these countries are struggling economies and they are being saddled with unsustainable debt in some cases yeah this is the big fear and this is one of the things that the critics have been saying about it on their own they're worried about this what about this congress next week the world bank is going

for you chuen it's on the to this determined capabilities however still member did emphasize that the purchase was indeed a challenge within nato but that nato would facilitate dialogue to resolve that disagreement and the hosts of the seventieth anniversary gathering seem to emphasize the unity of nato countries let's take a listen and the good news is we're in a good position a position of strength today are structures designed to empower each own not to subjugate it we maintain an outstanding degree of unity now germany in particular was called out by the united states for its lack of defense spending and we understand that most recently germany has increased its spending on military defense however it's only risen to one point twenty five percent still shy of the two percent threshold expected from nato countries so it was a seventieth anniversary birthday celebration for the north atlantic treaty organization quite a few issues discussed there a rather dark and pessimistic tone for a birthday party so i must know was once again painted as a major global. threat the nato secretary

for you chuen a dollar to decide on determined capabilities now stoltenberg emphasize that nato does have apparatus for dialogue to resolve the dispute regarding russia's arms purchases from turkey's arms purchases and arms deals with russia however most of the hosts really seem to emphasize nato unity in their remarks let's take a listen. in the good news is we're in a good position a position of strength today or structures designed to empower each own not to subjugate it we maintain that standing degree of unity. now we also heard washington kind of lashing out at germany for its a low level of defense spending and we have heard that shortly afterwards germany announced it would contribute roughly one point two five percent of its gross domestic product to the military budget however that is still shy of the two percent that is set by nato the two percent minimum for military spending so it was the seventieth anniversary of nato quite a lot of issues discussed there it's going to move and bring is that it's the law from new york thank you. so moscow was once again painted as being