The Caribbean’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in Chi­na’s Blue Silk Road ini­tia­tive may be the key to un­lock­ing new as­pects of tourism, trade, and cli­mate-change re­silience.

The need for strate­gic col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween Chi­na and Trinidad and To­ba­go, in par­tic­u­lar with re­gard to de­vel­op­ing deep-wa­ter re­sources, emerged as a cen­tral top­ic of dis­cus­sion dur­ing a pan­el dis­cus­sion at the event “Chi­na Caribbean Co­op­er­a­tion Amid a Chang­ing World” held at the Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness in Mount Hope, last month.

Dr Char Yu, gen­er­al di­rec­tor of the In­sti­tute of Latin Amer­i­ca Stud­ies at the Chi­nese Acad­e­my of So­cial Sci­ence, prompt­ed the dis­cus­sion on ma­rine pos­si­bil­i­ties that could be ex­plored.