Also its all a matter of interpretation: you can look at aid to central Asia and Africa as a long term investment. If these regions take off then that would be

Also its all a matter of interpretation: you can look at aid to central Asia and Africa as a long term investment. If these regions take off then that would be beneficial to China - it would create markets and natural allies. Creating a win win situation with foreign aid is also a bit novel (so far it was more an attempt get them into neocolonialist dependency, let's see if the Chinese do any better than that)