Chinas power is in its population, the more they take people out of poverty the better for them, the slow down may have come because of the slow down in Eu and USA but since the numbers in EU and US have started to improve then China will grow again they are the world's manufacturers. Even with the slow down, their economy grew at 7%...they cant be underestimated. India will follow.

My understanding is that China has not invested in any Infrastructure in the country, what their Government does is offer long term loans to the Kenya Government on condition that a Chinese Company undertakes the project. In actual sense it is the Kenya Government making the Investment and not China.

Guys are truly pushing this story...not good I asked before will it be like this for the nxt 4 yrs i wake in the morning and my whats app is full of links to gutter press as to how UK was snubbed by Putin surely we are better than this...

I believe most (if not all) of the Kenyan construction companies are totally useless. Kwanza i don't know who is working on the roads at Upper Hill but hapo kuna shida.

Net net I think Chinese good short term value but take away long term value. True they make excellent roads and at fair cost, however it's well known they ship in most of their materials from Chinese suppliers. Whereas we are getting good roads built in a short time which go on to support our SERVICE economy (efficient movement etc) we are slowly destroying our manufacturing industry and not transferring skills to our workers. We are also screwing our current account at the same time by by importing locally manufactured materials and equipment, it means the money paid out to Chinese contractors is shipped out which effectively means we are importing roads as well in addition to importing cars and other equipment we don't manufacture.

At some point we will want a national debate about this China infrastructure involvement. I know my argument may not appeal to all but from an economic standpoint all you need to do is put some figures around around all the pros and cons and extract a net!

We should also stop deriding ourselves the west has unreasonable attachments to aid. There is an unhealthy collaboration between the state and media in intoxicating the brains and nostrils of the citizenry with an ANTIWEST repellant while simultaneously delivering copious amounts of the EAST collogne. If the US provides Global funds to provide antiretroviral medication isn't it only fair for them to seek complete accountability for the same funds to ensure the funds are used for the intended purposes? or would we rather have Ms Gachara embezzle the money. How is that when an airport burns, when faced with natural disasters or there is hunger in the nation we always seek for help from US and Europe why don't we seek for help from China? Look at China's contribution to our country, it's largely in infrastructure, energy etc where it's their people who come to do the work, we rarely get to hear about boreholes, dams, schools, hospitals, money for medication, capacity building, security from China, it's only roads money and energy extraction money.