Here in the Kilimani parts of Nairobi you'd be spoiled for choice for Chinese food.

There's not one but two Chinatowns right next to each other one is called Chinatown

The other is China City. There's also China Center and China Square in other parts of Nairobi

Chinese infrastructure is visible all and China Square in other parts of Nairobi.

Chinese infrastructure is visible almost everywhere in the city,

but particularly in this area.

And right next door, towering over these mini China hubs as if to oversee at all is the Chinese

Xinhua news agency.

Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

For this episode, I travelled to the Kenyan capital Nairobi

to get a sense of the Chinese influence on the ground.

They've been signs of a cooling down of this

friendship and I wanted to take the temperature.

I'm Crassie Twick and this is the Global Jigsaw from BBC Monitoring

where we look at the world through the lens of its media.

Radio Tehran.

We need to galleys the territory of Ukraine.

Western countries are not the international community.

That era has finished. Let's take you first to the

let's take you first to the fictional African village

Mille, courtesy of a Chinese soap opera. which is a

courtesy of a Chinese soap opera.

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