FILE - In this May 30, 2017, file photo, the SGR cargo train rides from the port containers depot on a Chinese-backed railway costing nearly $3.3 billion, opened by Kenya's president as one of the country's largest infrastructure project since independence, in Mombasa, Kenya. The eventually will link a large part of East Africa to a major port on the Indian Ocean as China seeks to increase trade and influence. Asian and African leaders plan to press Beijing at a conference starting Thursday, April 24, 2019, to reduce the politically volatile debt burden left by its Belt and Road Initiative to build ports and other trade-related infrastructure. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)
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