has become a cornerstone in beijing's global belt and road project in sierra leone president julius mata b.-o. sees china's thirst for investment as a way for his country to move forward. and there are so many benefits to. so force we want to be a part of the world community but the large investments which chinese state owned companies have pursued so aggressively in africa have not been an exercise in philanthropy africa's vast resources have helped fuel china's economic transformation below rejects the accusation by some western countries that china is exploiting africa. we are not fools enough we know where we want to take a point in various countries to we evolve a new relationship that is designed to be a win win relationship if we do not think it was so we wouldn't be involved in that so i don't subscribe to that i know where i want to take my country some african 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 cou