Gallagher in Dialogo Chino: New China Phase in LatAm
Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, said that China was entering a new phase in its evolving relationship with Latin America.
Gallagher made the argument in a Sept. 17 article in the news blog Dialogo Chino entitled “China and Latin America: A New Phase of Engagement?”
From the text of the article:
“The relationship has taken a new phase indeed,” says Kevin Gallagher of Boston University’s Global Economic Governance Initiative, describing the first China-CELAC forum in January this year as “very significant” in allowing both parties to discuss broader hemispheric issues beyond bilateral trade relationships.
The five year China-CELAC cooperation plan which resulted from the first forum pledged to promote the industrialisation of CELAC countries to produce value-added goods.
And Gallagher also points out that the plan also contains several provisions such as collective action to combat climate change and provide aid to landlocked and poorer nations.
You can read the entire article here.
Gallagher is the co-chair of the Task Force on Regulating Capital Flows and has served as an advisor to the Department of State and the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States, as well as to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
Gallagher traveled to China earlier this summer to present two new GEGI reports to Chinese policymakers, and spent a year as avisiting scholar in the international development program at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. His upcoming book from Oxford University Press is titled The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus. Learn more about him here.