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FILE - In this May 30, 2017, file photo, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, second from left, and Chen Fenjian, president of CCC, shakes hands next to a model of a locomotive during the opening of a Chinese-backed railway costing nearly $3.3 billion, one of the country's largest infrastructure project since independence in Mombasa, Kenya. The railway 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 25, 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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