This episode features Parsifal D’Sola, a Chinese Foreign Policy analyst focused on Sino-Venezuelan relations. He is also the Founder and CEO of the Andrés Bello Foundation – China Latin American Research Center based in Bogota, Colombia.

Parsifal of Twitter: @pdsola

Show notes:

• China, Venezuela, and the New Silk Road in between 
• China in the LAC: Digital Diplomacy During COVID-19
• What is PetroCaribe? 
• China-Latin America Finance Database
• Mercosur: South America's Fractious Trade Bloc

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Intro Music:
No le Pegue a la Negra by Joe Arroyo

Outro Music:
Ah Feeling To Party by Black Stalin 

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Why did the Black Panthers get offered asylum in China?  Why did W.E.B Du Bois change his mind about Mao? In this episode I am speaking with Dr. Keisha Brown about Sino-Black Relations. Dr. Brown is an Assistant Professor at Tennessee State University. She is a historian and Asian studies scholar whose work examines the representations of blackness in Modern China.

Dr. Brown on Twitter: @DocKBrown85

Recommendations 

• Teaching China Through Black History
• “Blackness in Exile: W.E.B. Du Bois’ Role in the Formation of Representations of Blackness as Conceptualized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).” Phylon 53. 2 (Winter 2016): 20-33.
• “Keisha Brown” chapter in Trailblasian: Black Women Expats in East Asia Anthology.  T.K. McLennon, ed. (June 2014).
• Homegrown Podcast 
• NPR Code Switch Podcast
• Babylon East: Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan by Marvin Sterling 
• Afro Asia by Fred Ho & Bill Mullen (Editors)

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Intro Music
Tadow by Masego + Fkj

Outro Music
暴风雨/ Storm by Higher Brothers 

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In this episode I will be talking with Dr. Evan Ellis on the view from the U.S of China's security engagement with the Caribbean. We discussed China's role in UN Peacekeeping missions to Haiti; the commercial and strategic potential of China building a canal in Nicaragua to compete with the Panama Canal; the scenario space for China building military outposts in the Caribbean; and other topics. 

Dr. Ellis is a research professor of Latin American studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute and a Senior Associate at the Center of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Also Dr. Ellis previously served on the U.S secretary of state’s Policy Planning Staff with responsibility for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Recommendations:

1. China's Advance in the Caribbean by Evan Ellis 
2. American Foreign Policy in the English-Speaking Caribbean: From the Eighteenth to Twenty-first Century by Samantha Chaitram 

Show Notes:

• Wang Jing: The man behind the Nicaragua canal project
• The Modern World-System by Immanuel Wallerstein 
• Do Latin American Waters Continue to Fall Prey to China's Fishing?
• Hutchinson Ports (in the Bahamas; Chinese operated)

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Intro music:
Dreamin' - 53 Thieves

Outro Music
Mañana Sureña - Los Aguas Aguas 

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In this episode I'll be chatting with Jeremy Goldkorn. Jeremy worked in China for 20 years as an editor and entrepreneur. He is Editor-in-Chief of SupChina, and co-founder of the Sinica Podcast.   We had a wide ranging conversation about wolf worrier diplomacy, CCP thinking, and how to do nuanced China watching.

Jeremy on Twitter: @goldkorn

Recommended Reading:

• A Fearful Asymmetry: COVID-19 and America's Information Deficit with China 
• 江时学：“战狼外交”是个伪命题
• An Ignored Canary in an Unknown Coal Mine: The Caribbean's Economic Engagement with China
• The 'Little Emperor Model' of Chinese Diplomacy 
• The New Tianxia: Rebuilding China’s Internal and External Order

Intro Music:
祝酒歌 by Kawa

Outro Music:
All Ah We by Peter Ram

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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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Cross-strait relations do feature in caribbean foreign policy given that the region has quite a high proportion of Taiwan allies. We cannot discuss China in the Caribbean without thinking seriously about Taiwan.

In this episode I'm having a chat with Lev Nachman, a PhD candidate at UC Irvine. His research focuses on the relationship between social movements and political parties, with a spcial regional interest in Taiwan and Hong Kong. We talk about the domestic politics of Taiwan.

Lev on Twitter: @lnachman32

Recommended Reading 

• How Liberal is Taiwan? Adultery, the Death Penalty and Marriage Equality by Dafydd Fell
• Once a Cold War Flashpoint, a Part of Taiwan Embraces China's Pull by Chris Horton
• 菜市场政治学 

Intro Music
Chronixx - Here Comes Trouble

Outro Music
眠脑： 一片漆黑的海

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In this episode i'll be talking with Eric Olander, co-founder of the fantastic China in Africa Project.

Caribbean policy makers often believe they have recreate the wheel when it comes to China policy. They don't realize that China has been actively engaged with Africa. And the experience of those African countries can be very instructive for the Caribbean. The two regions have many similarities from being former colonies, relatively undeveloped, and of course being majority black.

But the Caribbean is relatively unaware of African generally and even less so of Sino-African relations. In this episode I want to open the dialogue between the Caribbean and Africa as it relates to what we can learn about China policy. In the age of Zoom and Whatsapp there is no excuse for a policy maker in Kingston to be unaware of what China is doing in Kigali.

Intro Music
Masego & FKJ -  Tadow

Outro Music
Los Aguas Aguas - Mañana Sureña 

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In this episode I'm speaking with Jordan Schneider, host of the ChinaTalk Podcast.  He also has a great newsletter that you should subscribe to: https://chinatalk.substack.com/

We discuss:

• The possible future of US-China tech competition under the incoming Biden Administration
• The nature of China's twitter influence campaigns and what we can learn about making viral memes from Russian disinformation operators 
• Why open source software should be the basis for a new US industrial policy and why China is looking to push that same strategy
• What we can learn from good Chinese tv shows
• Why we should all be listening to Chinese rap

Recommendations:
Jordan

1. American Mandarin Society 'China Syllabi Project'
2. 隐秘的角落 (Chinese TV show about the drama that ensues after a group of young kids accidentally film a murder.)
3. 令人心动的offer (Chinese reality show about legal interns. Season 2 is particularly recommended.)
4. 棋魂 (Chinese TV drama about a Fairy godfather who guides a kid in the ways of Weiqi/Go)

Rasheed

1. 猎狐 (Chinese police drama about the anti-corruption campaign in China around 2014-2015 to prosecute financial criminals. The official Chinese campaign was called "Operation Fox Hunting".)
2. 中国新说唱 (Chinese rap/hip content competition show)
3. Caribbean Soca Music

Twitter links
Jordan @jordanschnyc
Rasheed @rasheedguo

Intro Music: Chronixx - Here Comes Trouble
Outro Music: Farmer Nappy - Big People Party

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Jared Ward is a lecturer at a number of Midwest universities including the University of Akron, John Carroll University, and Notre Dame College (Ohio). In this episode we discuss his PhD research that traces Beijing’s earliest attempts to gain a diplomatic foothold in the Western Hemisphere — from supporting the armed revolution of Fidel Castro to building a brick making factory in Guyana. 

Guest contact info:
Personal website: https://jaredaward.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @JA_Ward_

Intro Music:
Here Comes Trouble
Chronixx 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfeIfiiBTfY

Outro Music:
Mañana Sureña
Los Aguas Aguas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joL1uQVv_QU&ab_channel=LosAguasAguas-Topic

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