Debt and Discontent? Chinese Loans in the Caribbean

China in the Americas

English - January 10, 2021 06:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
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Previous Episode: Cross-Strait Relations in the Caribbean: Part 1 - Taiwan's Domestic Politics

Next Episode: China Watching from the Caribbean with Jeremy Goldkorn

In this episode I'll be chatting with Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente. He is a Lecturer at Leiden University in the Netherlands and studies China's relations in Latin America and the Caribbean. We chat about Chinese loan making in the Caribbean (with a particular focus on Jamaica) and the implications of the Belt and Road Initiative 一带一路 (BRI) for Caribbean development.

This is a theme that we will return to again in later episodes of the podcast and the discussion here sets a great foundation.

Ruben's Papers:

Varieties of Capital and Predistribution: The Foundations of Chinese Infrastructural Investment in the Caribbean Make development great again? Accumulation regimes, spaces of sovereign exception and the elite development paradigm of China's Belt and Road Initiative Over Hills and Valleys Too: China's Belt and Road Initiative in the Caribbean

Ruben's Email: [email protected]

Intro Music:
Looking For China by Bunji Garlin

Outro Music:
Stage Gone Bad by Kes & Iwer George

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