Gallagher in the Media on Donald Trump, China and Latin America
Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed by several outlets on how President-Elect Donald Trump could open doors for China in Latin America if he follows through with campaign promises.
Gallagher was interviewed for a December 1, 2016 article in Bloomberg entitled “China Seizes Opening in U.S. Backyard as Trump Upends Policy.”
From the text of the article:
“The train has left the station,” said Kevin Gallagher, author of “The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus.” “As China exhibited last week, the Trump shock presents a period for China to accelerate its Latin American ties as it may offer more and better trade deals along with more financing with less strings attached.”
Improving ties with China was a “smart card to play” if the region’s governments wanted to gain leverage with the incoming U.S. administration, said Gallagher, a professor of global development policy at Boston University.
Gallagher was also quoted in a December 1, 2016 article in The Miami Herald, entitled “China Makes Move on Latin America as Trump Steps Back From Trade Deals.”
From the text of the article:
Kevin Gallagher, a Boston University professor who studies China’s interests in Latin America, said Trump’s election has given new momentum to what has been the communist nation’s approach for the past four and five years.
“In Latin Americans, their ears are more attuned for diverse possibilities,” said Gallagher, author of “The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus.”
“China’s got a long run view,” he said. “They have a billion people and they need lots of natural resources. And Latin America has sort of won the China lottery. They have got a lot of steel. They got a lot of oil. They got a lot of soybeans. Obviously, the Chinese really like soy.”
Kevin Gallagher is the co-chair of the Task Force on Regulating Capital Flows and has served as an advisor to the Department of State and the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States, as well as to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Gallagher has been a visiting or adjunct professor at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico; Tsinghua University in China, and the Center for State and Society in Argentina.