By Peter Richards
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Aug 5, CMC – The The Inter-American Dialogue says if the United States hopes to be viewed by the Caribbean as a partner in the region’s development, and to maintain strong political ties to regional governments in the process, then, like the Caribbean’s other primary partners, Washington will need to continue engaging on issues of top concern to the region.
In a 25-page report released in July that reviewed China’s climate assistance in the Caribbean, the authors note that with absent US involvement, China will be viewed ever more definitively “as a partner of choice on climate, energy transition, and wide-ranging other top priority objectives”.
The Report titled “ A Review of Chinese Climate Assistance in the Caribbean” is a product of the Asia & Latin America Programme at the Inter-American Dialogue, with the authors being Margaret Myers, a senior advisor to the Asia and Latin America Programme, Yifang Wang, a programme associate for the Asia and Latin America Programme and Aleem Mahabir, a research fellow at the Jamaica-based Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI).
The report notes that Caribbean countries have been active in promoting innovative solutions to climate and debt problems, such as the US$165 million climate-for-debt swap that Barbados negotiated in December 2024, but the region’s financial needs are only rising.
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