Big Ideas. ABC Radio National 621
6 June 2010
Latin America’s strengthening relations with China over the past decade have generated wide-ranging interpretations of the term ‘transparency’. In November 2008, the Cuban newspaper Granma stated that Chinese president Hu Jintao’ s visit to Havana represented an ‘example of transparency and Pacific cooperation.’ In Mexico, the term has been used more judgmentally, to accuse Chinese firms of seeking an unfair level of access to national retail markets. Policy institutes in Washington DC have been similarly critical, alerting the region to China’s ‘lack of transparency in dealing with national government.’
Transcript from Adrian Hearn
Research fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney