Assessing the Impact of China-Russia Economic Coordination in Latin America and the Caribbean
The CSIS Americas Program designed a series of tabletop exercises to examine the consequences of China-Russia cooperation across sectors, with the latest exercise addressing the economic and trade space. Results indicate that when China and Russia cooperate they tend to pursue more coercive trade and economic measures, though such coercion tends to backfire in the region. China has far greater economic clout in Latin America and the Caribbean, while Russia has leveraged its more limited presence to wield substantial influence.
Why it matters: The findings bear on the briefing's theme of economic coercion, indicating that coordinated Chinese and Russian pressure in Latin America and the Caribbean can backfire and thereby shape how the United States designs its own trade and investment approach.