{"id":9360,"date":"2019-10-30T14:44:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T19:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/?p=9360"},"modified":"2020-02-07T18:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T23:30:31","slug":"jorge-heine-comments-on-cancellation-of-apec-in-cgtn-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/2019\/10\/30\/jorge-heine-comments-on-cancellation-of-apec-in-cgtn-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Heine comments on cancellation of APEC in CGTN feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jorge-heine\/\">Jorge Heine<\/a>, r<span>esearch professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, commented on the cancellation of\u00a0the\u00a0APEC summit and COP25 climate meeting in Chile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Op-Ed, entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2019-10-31\/Chilean-ex-ambassador-APEC-cancellation-an-unfortunate-policy--LeEHo9duM0\/index.html\">Chilean ex-ambassador: cancellation of APEC an unfortunate policy<\/a>&#8220;<span>, and interview\u00a0aired on October 30, 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From the text of the Op-Ed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Amid weeks-long protests, the Chilean government announced on Wednesday to suspend the up-coming APEC summit and COP25 climate meeting. &#8220;It&#8217;s an unfortunate decision,&#8221; Jorge Heine, research professor at Boston University and former Chilean ambassador to China, told CGTN. \u00a0He said that Chile has been &#8220;playing a leading role&#8221; in APEC where both Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump confirmed their participation this year.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Ambassador <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jorge-heine\/\">Jorge Heine<\/a> is a lawyer, IR scholar and diplomat with a special interest in fhe international politics of the Global South. He was most recently a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. ( 2018-2019). He has served as ambassador of Chile to China ( 2014-2017), to India ( 2003-2007) and to South Africa ( 1994-1999), and as a Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Heine, research professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, commented on the cancellation of\u00a0the\u00a0APEC summit and COP25 climate meeting in Chile.\u00a0 The Op-Ed, entitled &#8220;Chilean ex-ambassador: cancellation of APEC an unfortunate policy&#8221;, and interview\u00a0aired on October 30, 2019.\u00a0 From the text of the Op-Ed: Amid weeks-long protests, the Chilean government announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,156,77,76,28,90,104,1],"tags":[171,294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9434,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions\/9434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}