Guyana’s relationship with China is one built on Beijing’s support for this country’s development goals and where common values are realised, President Irfaan Ali has declared, while observing that the United States is now moving to bridge the years of investment neglect in its relationship with this country and the Caribbean region as a whole.
“Our relationship is based on the country’s ability to move its development path forward. It is based on ensuring respect for fundamental principles, ensuring that we support common values. China has been in the region, CARICOM, Latin America, for a very long time,” Ali makes these remarks as a guest speaker at a forum in Washington, organised by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) – a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization. The topic at the forum was “Strengthening the Guyana-US Relationship” and Ali was asked, among other questions, “How does Guyana think about its relationship with mainland China?”
