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The aim of this chapter is to analyse from various regional perspectives the rapidly strengthening trade, investment and other economic ties that are in evidence between the People’s Republic of China and Latin America and the Caribbean. Historians, as well as policy-makers, are taken aback at the speed of change of China’s fortunes.
What we are doing hasn’t worked very well and, in fact, if you look at the gains, particularly in Latin America, that Iran is making and China is making it is quite disturbing.
I haveto saythatIdon’tthink–in today’sworldthatis amulti-polar world where we are competing for attention and relationships with at least the Russians, the Chinese and the Iranians – that it is in our interests to turn our backs on countries in our own hemisphere.
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton speaking to Foreign Service Officers at the State Department,1 May 2009.
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© 2012 Gastón Fornés and Alan Butt Philip
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Fornés, G., Philip, A.B. (2012). US and European Perspectives. In: The China-Latin America Axis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230363410_7
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