(Breitbart) The Chinese Communist Party hosted a carnival celebrating diversity" late Wednesday in Beijing featuring Party-approved performances from the likes of Jackie Chan and Andrea Bocelli. The show was a stark contrast to efforts to eradicate Uighur identity and the Muslim faith on the other side of the country. The carnival gala culminated the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations (CDAC) an event hosted by Communist Party leader Xi Jinping to promote the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Chinas plan to control all of the worlds major transportation hubs. Xi delivered a speech praising the diversity of Asian cultures and urging greater communication among the continents peoples specifically through participating in BRI projects. China uses BRI to offer economically weak nations the chance to build ports roads and railways with what American officials have called predatory" loans promising to create jobs in those countries but later only filling them with imported Chinese nationals. When the countries cannot pay their loans China then seizes the property it constructed. China has already done this in Sri Lanka and is threatening to do so in Kenya.