Jorge Heine: "The relationship with China has to move to the next stage, one that includes energy and infrastructure"
Program Fellow Jorge Heine is interviewed in Pulso on Chile-China relations on the wake of his departure to Beijing.
"To diversify Chile’s exports, to promote China's investments in Chile and to increase the flow of people in both directions. These are the three goals of our country’s new ambassador to the Asian giant, Jorge Heine, who travels today to Beijing to take up his posting there. A former ambassador to India and South Africa, he says that the newly announced BRICS Bank reflects the rising power of the emerging economies, and argues that the world's second largest economy has much to contribute to Chile’s growth and development."
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To read Jorge Heine's interview in Spanish, please click here.
About the Author
Jorge Heine
Research Professor, Boston University; Co-editor, FIXING HAITI : MINUSTAH AND BEYOND.
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Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
