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Critical Minerals in Bolivia – Opportunities and Implications for US National Security

Bolivia’s underdeveloped lithium and antimony resources offer an opportunity to diversify U.S. critical-mineral supply chains and reduce reliance on China. Closer U.S.-Bolivian cooperation could advance this goal, but faces barriers including state control of resources, limited infrastructure, technical challenges, and political uncertainty. Recommended measures include …
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China’s Growing Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean

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China’s Growing Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean

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The Rise of China in the Americas

This article examines the expansion of economic, political, and military activities by the People's Republic of China in Latin America and the Caribbean. It examines how the presence is transforming the region, including the reformulation of the agenda of its leaders, businessmen, and publics, changes to its physical infrastructure, new patterns of trans-Pacific organized crime, fuel to extend the life of populist regimes, and impacts on how member countries relate to each other. It also analyzes how the new presence of China impacts US interests in the region and globally, and how China both complements, and at times competes with, other external actors in the region, such as Russia, Iran, and India.
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China’s Growing Relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean

The purpose of this paper is to characterize China's growing relationship in Latin America and the Caribbean from a US perspective, the US response to that relationship, and some of the opportunities and challenges that the changing relationship creates for all parties. It argues that some of the greatest challenges are likely to come not from China-Latin America military engagement, but rather, from the growing physical presence of Chinese companies on the ground in the region, and byproducts of expanding commercial interactions such as trans-pacific criminal activity.
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Book Review – The China-Latin America Axis: Emerging Markets and the Future of Globalisation

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A Tentative Embrace: Brazil’s Foreign and Trade Relations with the United States

Brazil's economic performance, political stability, and search for greatness ensure that Brazil will play a strong role on many global issues and will strengthen regional economic cooperation. US-Brazil relations have evolved from an alliance during and after World War II into a wary but crucial engagement today. The April 2012 meeting of Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Barack Obama deepened cooperation on common interests. Brazil's foreign policy is set by economic factors more often than ideology, and Brazil wants to advance its core interests. The US seeks to encourage Brazil's rise. Nevertheless, differences between the US and Brazil on trade and other issues will not be overcome easily. This paper examines how the shifting balance of power in the world has expanded Brazil's spheres of action while outdated concepts like formal trading blocs prevent Brazil from achieving the narrower goals it set for itself.
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China, SA as a Local Company in Latin America

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The United States and China in Latin America: Cooperation and Competition

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Book Review – The Dragon in the Room; China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization

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