China’s drive for influence in the Western Hemisphere has zeroed in on economic gain, making the current great powers competition significantly different from the Soviet Union’s attempt to assert military power in the Americas the during the Cold War, a panel assessing the American-Chinese relationship after 40 years of diplomatic recognition agreed. Stapleton Roy, a former ambassador and now with the Kissinger Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., said on Thursday “it’s a very different type of rivalry” between China and the United States in the Western Hemisphere. The Chinese, for now, “are deeply interested in getting access … Continue reading China Expanding Economic Influence in Americas, Research in the Arctic