AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth notes that U.S.-Brazil relations are “rapidly improving” due in part to Brazil’s “lower profile on some contentious global political issues like Iran.”
U.S. Policy
COA Vice President Eric Farnsworth outlines why the vice president’s tour is part of “a long-overdue strategy of hemispheric engagement in 2013.”
Washington recognizes it needs “to contend more actively for the Americas,” comments AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth as the U.S. and China reach out to Latin America’s markets.
China’s President Xi Jinping’s trip to Latin America and the Caribbean is mainly a commercial endeavor and “not an attempt to project power,” points out AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth.
Vice President Joe Biden’s 2016 hopeful presidential candidacy may turn U.S.-Latin American relations into a foreign policy priority as he tours the region, points out AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth.
“For the first time questions are being raised about whether [Latin America] pushed the U.S. too far away” while China expands its reach in the region, comments AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth.