Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium
China is spreading its influence in both Africa and Latin
America. Its companies - many of them state-owned - are investing
where western businesses fear to tread. It assists some of the more
dictatorial, kleptocratic, and/or anti-American states such as
Sudan's genocidal regime, the Mugabe dictatorship in Zimbabwe, Hugo
Chavez in Venezuela, and Evo Morales in Bolivia. Meanwhile it
extracts raw materials such as oil from Angola and Venezuela,
platinum from Zimbabwe, copper from Chile and Zambia, iron ore from
South Africa and Brazil. Driving this outreach are strategic
shopping and investment lists, as China tries hard to insure the
natural resources to feed its industrial engine. Should the United
States be concerned, and if so precisely what can it do? A group of
Heritage Foundation and outside experts will examine the issues and
the possibilities.
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More About the Speakers
Josh Eisenman
Fellow in Asia Studies,
American Foreign Policy Council
Dr. R. Evan Ellis
Associate,
Booz Allen Hamilton
Stephen Johnson
Senior Policy Analyst,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis
Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation
Brett D. Schaefer
Jay Kingham Fellow in
International Regulatory Affairs,
Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom,
The Heritage Foundation
Hosted By
Harvey Feldman
Distinguished Fellow in China Policy
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