Latin America
Sergei Lavrov Travels to Latin America
March 10, 2010
During his presidential tour of Latin America in 2008, Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia’s Latin American policy was only beginning. Although the pace of these relations cooled in 2009, due to the global economic crisis, Moscow is...
China’s Arms Sales to Latin America: Another Arrow in the Quiver
February 18, 2010
Strengthening China’s military presence in Latin America is one of the many manifestations of Beijing’s increased activity on the international stage. Arms sales is a subset of the Chinese military's growing involvement in Latin...
The Politics of Disaster Relief: China, Taiwan and the Haitian Earthquake
February 4, 2010
After a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, the aftershock reached China in ways that few observers could have anticipated. After all, the link between the world’s most powerful rising economy and one...
China in the Caribbean: The New Big Brother
December 16, 2009
When Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) Wu Banggou arrived in the Bahamas in early September 2009 on the second leg of his Americas tour, it quickly became clear that he was not on...
Strategic Implications of Chinese Aid and Investment in Latin America
October 7, 2009
Since 2008, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has moved forward with a series of large aid and investment deals, indicating that the PRC is raising its stake in Latin America to a new level [1]. The impact of China's expanding...
Venezuela's Multibillion Dollar Abkhazia and South Ossetia Recognition Fee
September 16, 2009
Last week Hugo Chavez, the flamboyant leftist President of Venezuela, while meeting in Moscow with President Dmitry Medvedev, announced the recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia -the Georgian breakaway...
Jamaat al-Muslimeen: The Growth and Decline of Islamist Militancy in Trinidad and Tobago
July 30, 2009
On July 27, 2009 Trinidadians marked the nineteenth anniversary of the failed attempt by the Jamaat al-Muslimeen (JAM - Muslim Association, known colloquially as “the Jamaat)” to overthrow the government in Trinidad and Tobago in...
PLAN Officers to Train on Brazilian Aircraft Carrier
June 12, 2009
In a May 9 interview with Brazilian defense, strategy and intelligence news website Defasanet, Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim stated that Brazil and China had reached an agreement to train personnel from the People’s...
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