road beijing is massively investing in land routes to europe and shipping routes to the west fire ficca it's a network of roads railways ports and airports as well as pipelines and power plants beijing is selling it as a win win for all involved committing nine hundred billion u.s. dollars to it but critics say beyond being an investment in connecting asia and europe it's a geopolitical move and to assert power and influence the world's biggest infrastructure project is also designed to boost the chinese economy its construction steel and transport firms have built up a huge overcapacity and crushing debt they'll receive urgently needed business people in places like sri lanka and kenya meanwhile are taking to the streets in protest they fear they'll have to give up property and civil liberties china is not known for its commitment to protecting human rights. and this is how the chinese are selling the story once upon a time for about slave chinese like a bedtime story in which all nations share their wealth but is the project really about sharing and caring i spoke to marcus tollways t