{"id":49430,"date":"2021-05-31T14:43:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T18:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=49430"},"modified":"2021-06-02T15:09:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T19:09:45","slug":"heine-interviewed-on-u-s-china-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2021\/05\/31\/heine-interviewed-on-u-s-china-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Heine Interviewed on U.S.-China Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/04\/usa-vs-china-1024x612-1-e1611934023981.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/04\/usa-vs-china-1024x612-1-e1611934023981.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/04\/usa-vs-china-1024x612-1-e1611934023981-533x300.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/04\/usa-vs-china-1024x612-1-e1611934023981-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/04\/usa-vs-china-1024x612-1-e1611934023981-992x558.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Ambassador\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jorge-heine\/\">Jorge Heine<\/a><span>, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed on <em>Radio Mundo<\/em>&#8216;s program \u201cEn Perspectiva\u201d on which he discussed United States-China tensions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Relations between China and the United States became strained again recently as President Joe Biden ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate whether SARS-Cov2 originated in China from an animal source or from a laboratory accident. <\/span>Given these tensions, Heine argues that Latin America should go for what he calls the &#8220;Active Non Alignment option,&#8221; putting its own interests front and center to strengthen its regional coordination mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Guerra fr\u00eda&quot; EEUU - China. \u00bfQu\u00e9 consecuencias puede tener para Am\u00e9rica Latina?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uIzqQqXp9Xw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jorge-heine\/\">Ambassador Jorge Heine<\/a><span>\u00a0is a Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. 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. Read more about Ambassador Heine on his Pardee School\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jorge-heine\/\">faculty profile<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given growing tensions between the United States and China, Ambassador Heine argues that Latin America should go for what he calls the &#8220;Active Non Alignment option.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":43108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410,8434],"tags":[11784,11587,1165,11374,11754,11654],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49430"}],"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\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49430"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49437,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49430\/revisions\/49437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}