Opinion: China's Caribbean Port Strategy — What Small Island States Stand to Lose

A delegation of Caribbean port managers, led by Antigua and Barbuda's Darwin Telemaque, secured a US$10 million U.S. grant for regional port infrastructure in Washington — prompting a pointed analysis of what Caribbean governments risk trading away by accepting Chinese port financing without rigorous scrutiny of operational, data, and strategic terms.

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