Testimony by Senior Advisor Margaret Myers to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Advancing American Interests in the Western Hemisphere.
On January 30, 2025, the Inter-American Dialogue hosted the online discussion “Tracking China-Caribbean Relations, New Tools and Takeaways,” in partnership with the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) to explore the evolving nature of Chinese engagement in the Caribbean and to introduce a new analytical resource, CAPRI’s China-Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Portal.
On January 30, 2025, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM EST, the Inter-American Dialogue’s Asia & Latin America Program is pleased to partner with the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) to publicly launch CAPRI’s new China-Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Portal, an online tool that monitors and measures Chinese trade, aid, and diplomacy across nine CARICOM countries and in five economic sectors.
On October 9, 2024, the Inter-American Dialogue and the Japan Association of Latin America and the Caribbean (JALAC) co-hosted the public event, “Bolstering Latin America-Japan-US Cooperation on Energy Transition and Critical Minerals Supply.” This convening marked the tenth in a series of collaborations between the Inter-American Dialogue and JALAC, held in Washington, DC, Tokyo, and across the Latin American region, to consider key developments in Japan’s policy toward Latin America and prospects for greater US-Japan-Latin America cooperation on issues of mutual interest.
Ambassador Tom Shannon, Co-Chair of the Inter-American Dialogue, spoke with the Latin News Podcast about what the incoming Trump Administration’s foreign policy priorities in Latin America could be.
Much of what China is doing in Nicaragua is part of a broader strategy that we see throughout the region. Some of these projects seem
[The BRICS summits] have amounted to a litmus test of these countries resolved to measurably change the status quo, and are also of course a
Margaret Myers, director of the Asia & Latin America Program, was interviewed by Esteban Lafuente of La Nación on the challenges and opportunities resulting from China’s shifting engagement with the region.
In an event on October 9, 2024, organized by the Dialogue’s Asia & Latin America Program, panelists consider trends in Japanese policy and outreach toward the region, the intersection of US, Japanese, and Latin American interests, and prospects for enhanced US-Japan-LAC cooperation in frontier sectors, including energy transition and critical mineral supply.
China’s attempted economic recalibration has already reverberated across the Latin American and Caribbean region, as many countries see new interest from Chinese companies in emerging industries. Asia & Latin America Program Director Margaret Myers considers the increasingly uncertain role of Central America in this new equation.
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