The Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean examines China’s hegemony during its first module for 2015. The week-long intensive course runs from January 19th to 24th at The UWI’s St Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago. The course, which is the Academy’s 8th module, is designed to equip participants with an up-to-date understanding of how China rapidly moved from a position of isolation and poverty to become second only to the United States in national power, in just over three decades. It will cover a number of discussion themes including, The Diplomatic History of China; The Economy of China; China and its Asian Neighbours; Contemporary Challenges; The Diplomatic Culture of China; China’s Relations with the Caribbean and South-South Cooperation. The module will be led by His Excellency Dr Richard Bernal, who is a Diplomat as well as an Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. and Mr Gordon Houlden, Director of the Chinese Institute University of Alberta, Toronto. Houlden has had 28 years of direct experience working with China, and 5 diplomatic assignments in China. Chinas economic and political reach now includes every region of the globe, and that certainly includes the Caribbean. Every business and government should have a China strategy, which could mean having a strategy of how to benefit from the rise of China, or, a strategy of how to compete with China. But ignoring China is probably not a winning approach. -Gordon Houlden, Director of the Chinese Institute University of Alberta, Toronto.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:28:46 +0000
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