Good morning. My name is chairmans mark. Im a senior fellow with the Geoeconomics Center of Atlantic Council. I would like to welcome you to our next session where we are going to dig into development and finance, chinas lending, aid, its investments and what is being called the global south. Im going to use the moderators privilege and refer to low income and middle Income Countries. That seems to be a more neutral term than what we were using before. Real quickly, just to introduce the topic. We found a great deal today about a lot of the big picture aspects of chinas interaction with the developing world. And to think what were going to try to do here is sort of dig into the lifeblood of this interaction, which is money. The lending investment and a that china has offered to both low income and middle Income Countries over the past decade amounts to a vast sum, well over a trillion dollars. Based on a data statistics the commitment or even larger than that. Theres a lot of issues th