Tag: Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy

• Friday, May 10th 2024 - 19:35 UTC

  Gen. Richardson warns of dangers of China's LatAm expansion

  

  US Southern Command (Southcom) Chief General Laura Richardson warned during her appearance Thursday at the Ninth Hemispheric Security Conference (HSC) at the Florida International University (FIU) Miami campus, organized by the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy together with the Taeda Foundation that China's growing influence in building critical infrastructure in Latin America had raised security concerns. In addition, the region hardly benefits “from the resources that China extracts,” the four-star general stressed.