China has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in Infrastructure Projects across the world but is its global riots good or bad for poor country im femi oke. It is day 3 of our special series looking at colonialism our attention was drawn to articles accusing china of economically exploiting countries around the world with some going so far as to say its on the verge of being a colonialist power so is chinas Unprecedented Development cause for concern or celebration look for the hash tag on twitter because colonialism and sinister thoughts. China is now approaching a decade as the worlds 2nd biggest economy and it is investing in a staggering ferocity of Infrastructure Projects in regions as diverse as the caribbean south asia and africa Chinese Companies are building roads railways power plants and cross border Internet Networks around the world funded by billions of dollars of cheap credit the projects are part of chinas belt and Road Initiative its the most ambitious Global Devel
Basically a conditionality model and. You didnt do this i give you that price so that is taken care of too its a basic choice approach or you will do this if i offer you something if you dont believe there wont be and it was for you and thats how its been working for. 20 years now it was very successful in the countries from Central Europe which were all over the spot i spy ring naturally to be members of the opinion doesnt really require here that well this is the 1st thing the 2nd thing is its not applied its. Consistently here so i would say the major problem with european is asia and the e. U. Enlargement process in the western balkans is the application of the more that and we see this possibility on both sides european officials dont apply as they did in the ninetys for example. But also the western balkans leaders tried to escape when they ever day and the kind of a rule that would make them follow the line now 1st of all lets agree on the terms you mentioned here a piano zation
A couple and here we meet with newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter. China has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in Infrastructure Projects across the world but is its global riots good or bad for poor countries im femi oke. It is day 3 of our special series looking at colonialism our attention was drawn to articles accusing china of economically exploiting countries around the world with some going so far as to say its on the verge of being a colonial power so is chinas Unprecedented Development cause for concern or celebration look for the hash tag on twitter because colonialism and send us your thoughts. China is now approaching a decade as the worlds 2nd biggest economy and it is investing in a staggering ferocity of Infrastructure Projects in regions as diverse as the caribbean south asia and africa Chinese Companies are building roads railways power plants and cross border Internet Networks around the world funded by billions of dollars of cheap credit the pro
Minority rights the problem is that in the western balkans. After 2000. And especially over the past the 78 or 10 years we have of the climb better visible decline in all of these crew so the market is not functioning efficiently according to. The competitive gritty of you know we have democratic decline very visible democracy decline. We have not always but we have problems with protection of minorities. In some places or at least some kind of problem with between majority and minority but the major problem is the will of law we simply not only serbia but everywhere in the western balkans have a judiciary and Public Prosecutors which are under the heavy influence of politicians now i know that you specifically identify state capture that is the misuse of state funds for private and political benefit as the main obstacle to your europeanization but i would say that this kind of france seeking and selfserving behavior could be found within the court itself in countries like cyprus or it
Transfer a big i mean so you know universities are learning places there are places you discussed in seoul disagrees with me then i want to find out why and we can learn from each other but. Hello there shes gone midday here in moscow youre watching r. T. International nearly obtained documents reveal of the u. S. Drugmaker perjury pharma huge the leading Media Outlets to downplay the risks of its widely prescribed opioid painkiller the drug has been blamed for americas deadliest Opioid Epidemic revelations were made by the investigative Media Outlets pro publica misleading articles in question were written by analysts from funded think tanks and they cited funded studies with more his caliber. Purdue pharma the corporation that created oxy cotton is generally blamed for the crisis due to their efforts to reorient the medical community and change the narrative regarding the dangers of addiction lets go over a specific example of how they went about doing this in 2004 the New York Times