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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