China in Latin America: Major Impacts and Avenues for Constructive Engagement
Security Theme
State Stability and Infrastructure
Keywords
Economic Stability, Latin america development, chinese investment, trade
Description
Over the past two years, U.S. officials have sought to highlight China’s negative effects on the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region’s development and stability, whether to U.S. or Latin American audiences. As U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a trip to Mexico City in October 2018, “China has invested in ways that have left countries worse off.”1 Pompeo and other U.S. officials have also taken this message elsewhere in the region, cautioning against the effects of Chinese engagement on LAC governance, security, corruption, regulatory capacity, and financial stability, and in a range of other areas.
China in Latin America: Major Impacts and Avenues for Constructive Engagement
Over the past two years, U.S. officials have sought to highlight China’s negative effects on the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region’s development and stability, whether to U.S. or Latin American audiences. As U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a trip to Mexico City in October 2018, “China has invested in ways that have left countries worse off.”1 Pompeo and other U.S. officials have also taken this message elsewhere in the region, cautioning against the effects of Chinese engagement on LAC governance, security, corruption, regulatory capacity, and financial stability, and in a range of other areas.
