Category: Silk & Coffee Podcast

Confucius Institutes in Latin America and the Caribbean

In episode 13 of the Silk & Coffee Podcast, Parsifal talks with Julian Prieto Barrera, former local director of the Confucius Institute at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogota, Colombia. In the episode, Julian dives into the Confucius Institutes (CI) in the region.

Western journalism in China: a mixture of prejudice, opacity, and restrictions.

In episode 12 of the Silk & Coffee podcast, Parsifal talks with the Spanish journalist Zigor Aldama, who lived and worked for over 20 years as the Asia correspondent, about his experience as a jounalist in this country.

China’s football industry, a sport-bridge to Latin America

In the conversation, Professor Caycedo talks about the PRC’s interest in football and how the government actively promotes the sport around the country with the aim of turning China into a football powerhouse.

China-Colombia relations: increasing by the day

In our last episode of the Coffee & Silk Podcast, Parsifal talks to Professor Carolina Urrego, where she explains to us the current situation of the Sino-Colombian relationship, highlighting the reasons that explain why Colombia has delayed the most in the Latin America region, the approach towards China.

China’s Film Industry: An instrument for internal education and communication with the foreign public.

In the 9th episode of the Coffee & Silk Podcast, Parsifal talks with Veronica Flores, Argentinian professor, and expert on Contemporary China´s art, social and cultural history. On this occasion, Veronica takes a quick trip through China´s Cinema history and the relationship between this industry and the government. Flores emphasizes the importance of Chinese artistic expressions and creative language, as a tool to gain attention from the foreign public.

Thoughts of a Latin American journalist living in China: Isolda Morillo´s experience

In this episode of the Coffee & Silk Podcast, Parsifal talks to Isolda Morillo, journalist and writer from Ayacucho, Perú where she share with us her experience over the dynamics of Journalism in China.

China-Brazil Relations and the types of dependency between China-LAC: a conversation with Thiago de Aragão

In the 7th episode of the Coffee & Silk Podcast, we chatted with Thiago de Aragão about China´s interest y Latin America and the Caribbean and the dynamics of this relationship with a strong focus on Brazil.

China – Latin America relations: a point of view from Mexico with Enrique Dussel

In Episode 6th of the Coffee & Silk Podcast, Parsifal and David chat with Enrique Dussel Peters about topics such as the Chinese Direct Investments in LAC, the Latin Americas´s institutions that study the China-Latin America relationships, the importance of generating new concepts regarding these relations, as well as the triangular relationship between the countries of Latina America and the Caribbean, the United States and China.

China’s environmental track-record in Latin America: a conversation with Fermin Koop

This week on Silk & Coffee, Parsifal and David talk to Fermin Koop about the environmental challenges surrounding China’s engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean.

China-Caribbean relations, a conversation with Rasheed Griffith

In this episode, our hosts David and Parsifal talk with Rasheed Griffith about China´s engagement with the Caribbean. During the conversation Rasheed address the diverse composition of the Caribbean and the differences and commonalities along the region. He also talks about the development of China’s relationship with the Caribbean.
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