Parsifal D'Sola Alvarado
Executive Director of Fundación Andrés Bello – China Latin America Research Center and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub, specializing in Sino-Latin American relations.
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7:19
or less same framing, same wording in terms of talking to the Global South, portraying China as part of the Global South, a lot of word about multilateralism, anti-hegemony, this maximalist view of sovereignty.
7:37
So the typical talking points that we see from Chinese officials, the reform ministry, and the diplomatic corps, Where do I see some new items? For the first time, they explicitly mentioned security and military ties.
8:01
It's not the main focus, but the fact that it It is mentioned explicitly, I think, says something about this evolving Chinese foreign policy, not only towards Latin America, but overall.
8:20
I wouldn't read too much into the fact that it was published less than two weeks after the U.S. national security strategy.
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Carin ZissisHOST
What do you think China learned from its relationship with Caracas? What did it learn not only about Venezuela, but also how would it apply what it learned from Venezuela to its policy towards Latin America overall?