a summit to pitch the belt roads advantages of those some countries don't need much convincing. in a two day maker event beijing is proudly welcoming representatives from over one hundred countries to market its gigantic belt and road infrastructure project. the belgian right initiative has opened up new space for global economic growth platforms for international trade and investment and it's offered new ways of improving global economic governance the new initiative has helped improve people's lives in the countries involved and it's created more opportunities for prosperity . bullshit the new multi-billion dollar project will connect asia africa and europe to china's trade network but there's a lot of criticism because china is financing the project with enormous loans countries that participate in making themselves financially dependent on china and china will make money for decades. countries like germany france and britain aren't