Rasheed Griffith, host of the China in the Caribbean podcast, is the head of operations at Tokamak Labs, a Canadian technology company that develops software for institutional crypto-assets trading. A graduate of the University of West Indies, he has previously worked in fintech in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. Griffith first went to China as part of an economics policy delegation from the government of Barbados in 2016. He is also a Research Fellow at Future Forum and an Emergent Ventures Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University where he researches China’s economic activities in the Caribbean. What follows is a lightly edited interview.
Rasheed Griffith.Illustration by Lauren Crow
Q: Jamaica has been the most recent flashpoint for U.S.-China tensions in the Caribbean region. Can you walk us through what happened?
A: Jamaica, like all the other Caribbean countries, has quite a material deficit when it comes to infrastructure. And they've been trying to g
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