On November 13 the Xinhua News Agency, the official press agency of China, carried a report that indicated an important and seemingly strategic change in US policy towards the Caribbean and Latin America. In a story widely covered in the Chinese media, but hardly noticed internationally, it reported that the United States does not sees China’s increasing engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean as a threat, and that the two countries’ presence in the hemisphere was not a zero sum game.
Referring to a visit to Beijing by Roberta Jackson, the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the US State Department,