{"id":17303,"date":"2015-05-18T14:59:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T18:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=17303"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:08:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:08:42","slug":"gallagher-chinas-next-level-in-latam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2015\/05\/18\/gallagher-chinas-next-level-in-latam\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallagher: China&#8217;s Next Level in LatAm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/01\/gallagherbeardresized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/01\/gallagherbeardresized.jpg\" alt=\"gallagherbeardresized\" width=\"545\" height=\"317\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/01\/gallagherbeardresized.jpg 545w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/01\/gallagherbeardresized-516x300.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/kevin-p-gallagher\/\">Kevin Gallagher,<\/a> Associate Professor of Global Development Policy at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\">Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a> said that closer economic ties between China and Latin America were a deliberate and beneficial strategy pursued by both regions.<\/p>\n<p>The argument came in a May 18 article in the newspaper <em>China Daily<\/em> entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/usa.chinadaily.com.cn\/world\/2015-05\/18\/content_20743846.htm\">&#8220;China, Lat Am\u00a0Ready for Next Level.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the text of that article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Overall cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean is an affirmatively chosen option in China&#8217;s global strategy and China is also a priority in Latin America&#8217;s Asia-Pacific diplomatic strategy, according to the Yellow Book of Latin America and Caribbean (2014-15) just released by the Chinese Academy of Social Science on May 15 in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The report highlights how strategic Latin America has become for China, and China has become for Latin America,&#8221; said Kevin Gallagher, a professor of global development policy at Boston University. &#8220;They are building strong bridges across the Pacific Ocean.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/usa.chinadaily.com.cn\/world\/2015-05\/18\/content_20743846.htm\">the entire article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gallagher was also interviewed on the topics of China and Latin America for the Spanish language news outlet <em>BBC Mundo<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mundo\/noticias\/2015\/05\/150518_brasil_peru_china_tren_bioceanico_gl\">Read the article in Spanish here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gallagher\u00a0<span>co-directs the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/research\/research-initiatives\/global-decolonization-initiative\/\">Global Economic Governance Initiative<\/a><span> and the Global Development Policy Program. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/kevin-p-gallagher\/\">Learn more about him here.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardee School Professor Kevin Gallagher spoke with international news outlets on the close trade ties between China and Latin America. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[8802,1688,8463,1362,1810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47917,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17303\/revisions\/47917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}