Chinese investment and trading in Africa has sometimes been interpreted as an exportation of excess industrial capacity, but CGTN Africa’s Beatrice Marshall explains that the basis for these trading networks began over 600 years ago: today’s Belt and Road Initiative is “completing the circle of life” in Africa.

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