China in the Americas
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- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 32
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
There’s A Plot Afoot?
In this episode, Rasheed talks to Ethan Knecht about free trade agreements and investments of China in other countries. Exchanging thoughts and opinions regarding the Panama Canal dispute and diploma…
China and Tech in the Global South
In this episode, Rasheed talks to Bryce Barros, Nathan Kohlenberg, and Etienne Soula about their report about China’s influence over the digital information environment outside of its borders.
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To China or the Market? Commercial Creditors and Caribbean Debt Financing
To China or the market? Why borrow from a Private lender instead of China? In this episode, Rasheed talks to Federico Sequeda about why international US-based commercial creditors invest in Caribbean…
Panamá-China Relations
The Republic of Panama officially recognized the People's Republic of China in 2017. Ever since then, there has been a constant parade of op-eds from think tanks about the potential risk of China's a…
Legal Dynamics of Sovereign Debt Markets
In foreign policy circles there is so muc…
Dollarization Equals Economic Freedom
Redux: China-LAC 2021 Top Stories
The Canada-China Political Deep Freeze
Following the 2018 arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou 孟晚舟 on extradition charges to the USA, the political relationship of Canada and China has entered a "Deep Freeze" (as stated by David Mulroney, fo…
Small State Diplomacy and China
How should the embassies of small states be structured to optimize their economic return in relation to China? This episode features Dr. Chelston Brathwaite, Barbados's Ambassador to the People's Rep…
A New Era in China's Development Finance to Emerging Economies
Earlier this year China published a white paper on its new approach to International Development Finance. Our guest, Stella Zhang, described this white paper as a "landmark document" in Chinese forei…
Scott MacDonald on Bank De-Risking in the Caribbean and the New Cold War Debate
Scott B. MacDonald is a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is also the chief economist at Smith’s Research & Gradings. Prior to that, he was the head of…
Will China Be Cuba's Next Patron?
To truly understand Sino-Cuban relations you need to understand the context of Cuba's relations with Venezuela, the US, and the former USSR. Why did USSR become the Patron of Cuba for most of the Col…
A Deep Dive on Banking with Chinese Lenders
Kanyi Lui is a Taiwanese-Australian international finance lawyer based in Beijing. He is a Partner at Pinsent Masons with almost two decades of experience advising major financial institutions and bo…
LTG Charles Hooper on China and US Security Cooperation
Retired Lieutenant General Charles Hooper is the Former Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (2017-2020). LTG Hooper was commissioned in 1979 as an infantryman. Since then his politic…
Economic History of the Caribbean since the Napoleonic Wars
Guangzhou to Barbados: Growing up Chinese in the Caribbean
Barbados is 91% Black. East Asians account for just around 0.1% of the country's population.
In this episode I chat with my friend Lin Jiang (Jack) about his experience growing up and living in the…
US-China Tech Competition & the Transpacific Experiment
From BYD buses in Barbados, Huawei infrastructure in Antigua, Surveillance tech in Jamaica, and ZTE in Cuba, the US-China tech competition dramatically affects the Caribbean. In this episode I am joi…
How the Caribbean Approaches Diplomacy with China
In this episode I am joined by Barbados's Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, His Excellency Ambassador Francois Jackman. We discussed several major foreign policy and geopolitical themes c…
We're All In The Caribbean with Tyler Cowen
I'm now an Emergent Ventures Fellow! I've received a generous grant from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The grant will be used to develop this podcast and create more China-Caribbean…
Does Washington D.C. Think About the Caribbean?
This episode features Wazim Mowla, a Program Assistant at the Atlantic Council Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Caribbean Initiative. Previously he worked at the Embassy of Guyana and the Embassy …