Gallagher on China and Latin America
Kevin Gallagher, associate professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, said that there was little the U. S. could do to prevent closer ties between China and Latin America – a development which would have profound economic implications.
The remarks were made on Jan 6. to Fusion Media for their article, “Why China and Latin America are Tying the Knot in 2015.” The article read:
China expert Kevin Gallagher expects this week’s Latin America powwow in Beijing will be a “pivot point for China-Latin American relations” that will most likely produce a “major set of funding arrangements.”
“It is hard to think about substantive counteroffers that the U.S. can provide,” said Gallagher, an associate professor of global development policy at Boston University and co-author of The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization.
Gallagher is the coordinator of Boston University’s Global Development Policy Program. He is a faculty fellow at BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future where he leads the Global Economic Governance Initiative.
Gallagher is also a research associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute of Tufts University and at the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.