In the Media

RWR’s Senior Analyst, Ricardo Barrios, was featured in a piece written for Dialogo Chino on July 30, authored by Fermin Koop. In the article, titled, “Coronavirus Reshapes Belt and Road in Latin America,” Mr. Barrios notes, We are entering into a new phase of BRI in Latin America, as China has been forced to transform the initiative…China has less money to lend and is being more selective about how it uses it, while it also has to cope with ...

On June 26, the South China Morning Post covered the potential political risk factors at play in Beijing's efforts to develop the Central and Western regions of the country, given the human rights issues that have gained such profile in the country's treatment of the Uighur population Xinjiang. In this article, RWR's Ricardo Barrios made the following observation,

On June 24, the Financial Times reported on a new list of Chinese companies published by the U.S. Department of Defense that identifies those entities determined to be both tied to the Chinese military (the Peoples Liberation Army) and operating in the the United States. The list was published per requirements laid out in the 1999 National Defense Authorization Act that had never been fulfilled and included several publicly-traded ...