In a show taped on March 2, before the full force of COVID-19 had hit the U.S., Kaiser and Jeremy chatted with Parsifal D'Sola Alvarado about China's strategy in the resource-rich but economically devastated Venezuela. Parsifal is a co-founder of the Andrés Bello China-Latin America Research Foundation and a foreign policy adviser to Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó.
2:47: China-Venezuela relations before Hugo Chávez
11:29: Popular attitudes toward China under Chávez
30:27: Between Maduro and Guaidó, China is hedging its bets
40:40: Documenting Chinese interaction in Venezuela
45:02: Do policymakers understand China’s involvement in South America
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