China's Interactions with the African Continent in the Light of the Initiative of a Belt - a Road

China's relationship with Africa has has been growing over the last two decades. Today this country has extensive economic relationships with Africa in areas such as trade, investments, financial helps and loans. These relationships had significant effects on areas of its political and security engagments with conteries of Africa. Thus it's political and security engagments in Africa has been increased in recent years bilateraly and multilateraly that truned china into an effective global actor in the peace and stability of this continent. Containig economical and georafical cotexts turned the continent of Africa to a place of competition for global powers including US, Rusia, EU and China. These actors attempt to rival geopolitically with other global actors thorugh political and economical influence with the aim of expanding their intrests in Africa. Considering this, China is trying to provide a cotext to evaluate its poitical and military position in the continent alongside eaning economical intrests and in sum to evalutate its geopolitical position in the continent with the expantion of Belt-Road Inititive, which is estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars, to Africa.