Africa. The adventures of the famous naturalist and explorer. To celebrate alexander from votes 250th birthday were embarking on a voyage of discovery. Expedition voyage on t. W. A. China celebrates 70 years of communist rule the nations extraordinary economic transformation. Growing influence on africa. Germanys famous black forest to fight the chinese residents there to take over their regional airport. And. Faces of resistance from. Business lavish celebrations in china and the display of military might to mark 70 years of communist rule along with a complete economic turnabout after decades of stagnation under chairman mao zedong. In the late 1970 s. Process continues today all the while Chinese Companies have been snapping up their rivals abroad and the state has been exploring africa becoming its biggest investor beijing really burst on to Global Markets with its belts and Road Initiative its building Rail Networks and power stations all over the world over 60 countries a part of the new silk road the project is enabling china to access new markets more role materials. Large scale investment in Subsaharan Africa in particular between january and july china invested some 5000000000. 00 in the region about a 3rd of that went to the Energy Sector the large scale construction of power plants and electricity grids but such investment has prompted criticism from sell who say african countries are taking on too much debt to finance those projects and the huge chinese loans to africa total 125000000000. 00 between 2002016 well i see is in akron for us. Thout chinas investments and influence view got away you. So in 2 ways this is the scenes really. Quite surprising that the country has been opened up to china because the way in the economy and get taken over some other sectors i should be taken over by low cost for the government it is strategic for the government because they govern us camping to come into power to do certain things and theres no money really to do that and so once china is willing to provide that 8 they do take it so at the position of china its strategic in ghana and the government see its very very significant and very important but citizens have some skepticism about the presence so theres a whole lot of money flowing from china to africa including ghana but the International Monetary fund says gotter in particular faces a high risk of debt distress yes does a case and not just the world bank but even analysts in ghana have raised our concern that when the country continues to borrow high returns from china and other even from Even International bodies like i. M. F. And world bank they dont risk the country runs into will be that is not able to find out some of these dates so that is a challenge for countries like. And even other countries that are part of the continent the challenge and the concern has been they are about there the mounting debts that africa has because theyve been borrowing from china looking ahead do you see these ties between africa and china deep. Well theres really not a substitute yet for china people who say europe and america are there but theyre not playing the role that china is playing and for the future really. Be dipping. Because africa really makes some finances to actually. See a future theyre going to have been dipping. Thank you very much for your analysis there from. I think the Chinese Company behind the best selling smartphones in africa transition has raised almost 400000000. 00 in a public listing the firm floated its shares on shanghais new tech focus stock market which opened in july transitions smartphone brands included in a fix ito and techno globally the group sold 124000000. 00 phones last year the vast majority in africa. Back to chinas corporate shopping spree of the past few years its been buying up all types of businesses savings and ruffling feathers in failed attempts to take over others the latest case concerns a german airport in the black forest a solitary helicopter buzzes over the runway but theres not much else going on here at laura airport in southwestern germany theres a boeing 747 used for test flights otherwise the skies are empty. But because the city of largo has contacts in china investors there learned about the former military airfield the mayor says it has a lot of potential. And of its own to you if you look around the world as there arent many people who are in a position to recognize these benefits and take action as well as provide the financing so sooner or later youre going to have to deal with china but the idea of the chinese taking over the airfield caused a stir in the city of 47000. 00 after all Flight Operations have been kept going at least on a small scale thanks to tunnel Boring Company heaven it likes things the way they are and it isnt alone in rejecting the new plan not to snooty if you lot doesnt need it the airports doing well it is a good solution with half and connect and other companies on boat we can keep going the way we often now and take our time to see if there are opportunities for investments this tool give british and Australian Companies already had big plans to connect with the world but they failed what the chinese solution be any better in the vision and theyve been very bad experiences with chinese investors at other airports with how think is spent the only what i need to say is hun frankfurt han airport is not a remote region of western germany quite far from frankfurt for years it was a financial burden on the 2 german states that jointly owned it in 2017 chinas h. And a group took it over the result. We have almost doubled our growth in freight and thats something we can be satisfied with but theres not much we can do about macroeconomic developments and. Translation global trade conflicts are causing cargo levels to fall again a glance at the terminal suggests theres little chance of a revival for frankfurt han. Passenger numbers have fallen by almost half over the past decade even so the airport is still an important employer in the region leaving people there dependent on the chinese back and lower the airfield has also created numerous jobs but they have nothing to do with air traffic instead its thanks to companies that have located on the former military base. And theyre going going gone. 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Power is cheaper it went from down by about a 3rd the cost per kilowatt hour. Wind energy has also become one of the Fastest Growing us Energy Sources with big corporations planning to invest 70000000000. 00 in the countrys 1st utility scale offshore wind farms. But this man really hates Wind Turbines us President Donald Trump on twitter he calls wind energy dangerous and promotes coal and oil instead. If you have a windmill anywhere near your house congratulations you have just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer you tell me that one error that claim was immediately refuted by the American Cancer Society but people fear the Trump Administration could destroy a booming industry with a huge potential for future proof jobs. And i suspect they know that investors for future projects are going to look at the delays and cumbered by this project and think twice before they vested with. 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