Kevin Gallagher,<\/a> Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a> said that a train across South America was key for China’s strategy of further economic expansion in the region.<\/p>\n Gallagher’s argument was quoted in a Jan. 19 article in the Spanish-language newspaper\u00a0El Comercio.\u00a0<\/em>The translated title of the article is “Europe Looks to Get on the Transcontinental Train Between Brazil and Peru.”<\/a><\/p>\n From the text of the article:<\/p>\n And it’s a key cog in the strategy to expand its diplomatic influence in the region.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n “It would be a trophy and a key part of the whole relationship, if it goes well,” said Kevin Gallagher, a professor at Boston University and author of studies on the link <\/span><\/span>China-Latin America.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n “The whole project is a great promise, but must be done well or can become a nightmare,” he said in an interview with the BBC last year.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The article is in Spanish. You can read the entire article here.<\/a><\/p>\n Gallagher co-directs the <\/span>Global Economic Governance Initiative<\/a> and the Global Development Policy Program. Learn more about him here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Professor Kevin Gallagher speaks to the Spanish-language El Comercio about the impact of a train financed by China across South America. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8431,8410],"tags":[9287,1688,9202,8463,8859,1362,1810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672"}],"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=20672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47841,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions\/47841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}