Rana Mitter
Appearances
WSJ What’s News
China Has Been Building Influence for Years. How Will Trump Respond?
A few years ago, one of the biggest challenges that the Global South was giving the Western world was how to answer the availability of cheap and easily given finance from China when it came to goods and services they wanted right now, particularly infrastructure.
WSJ What’s News
China Has Been Building Influence for Years. How Will Trump Respond?
And I'd say in the years since then, certainly into the early 2020s, the Western world and the United States in particular has come up with partial but only partial answers to those questions.
WSJ What’s News
China Has Been Building Influence for Years. How Will Trump Respond?
Breaking overnight, workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, in Washington were told to stay home.
WSJ What’s News
China Has Been Building Influence for Years. How Will Trump Respond?
And what will probably end up happening is, in many sectors, countries like Germany or countries like Canada, They might find themselves having to have conversations they would never have dreamed of having, you know, two, three, five years ago, possibly even with Beijing, out of necessity.