Four years and some hundreds of billions of dollars later, China’s ambitious global trading strategy known as the “Maritime¹ Silk Road” or “One Belt, One Road“ is now coming to life, particularly in parts of East Africa where major infrastructure² and defense³ projects are being built.

四年以来数百亿美元过后，中国雄心勃勃的全球贸易战略，“海上丝绸之路”或者称作“一带一路，现在正在变成现实，特别是在东非的部分地区，主要的基础设施建设和国防安全项目正在建设中。

New ports in Tanzania, rail lines in Kenya, naval⁴ facilities in Djibouti and industrial zones along the Suez Canal in Egypt are all intended to support this massive new trade network that President Xi Jinping hopes will become a key pillar of his foreign policy agenda.

坦桑尼亚的新港口，肯尼亚的铁路线，吉布提的海军设施和沿埃及苏伊士运河的工业区都被用来支撑这个庞大的新贸易网络，习近平主席希望这个贸易网络能够成为他的对外政策议程的关键支柱。

Matt Ferchen is an associate professor of international relations at Tsinghua University and a resident scholar at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy where he is a leading OBOR expert with a particular focus on how the venture will impact the Global South.

Matt Ferhen是一位清华大学的国际关系学副教授、卡耐基-清华全球政策中心的常驻学者，在那里他是一位领导性的一带一路权威专家，特别聚焦于这项冒险将如何影响南半球。

Matt joins Eric & Cobus — in the podcast above — to discuss the new politics of Chinese trade.

Matt参加了一个播客节目Eric&Cobus，讨论中国贸易新决策。