18 Oct Gunboat Diplomacy Revisited: U.S. Naval Power, Hemispheric History, and the China Factor in the Venezuelan Standoff
By, CDR José Adán Gutiérrez, USN (Ret.), Senior Fellow, MSI² LTC Octavio Pérez, U.S. Army (Ret.), Co-Founder & Senior Fellow, MSI² Dr. Rafael Marrero, Chief Economist & Founder, MSI² The U.S.–Venezuela standoff is less about narcotics than about China’s encroachment on Western Hemisphere supply chains and strategic minerals. Naval...