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Sir Ronald Sanders<\/a>\u00a0is ambassador of the twin-island Caribbean nation of Antigua & Barbuda (population 99,000) to both the United States and the Organization of American States (OAS).<\/p>\n

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But in an April 28 webinar co-sponsored by the\u00a0Caribbean\u00a0Policy Consortium<\/a>\u00a0and Florida International University\u2019s\u00a0Kimberly Green Latin American and\u00a0Caribbean\u00a0Center<\/a>, Sanders said that when it comes to how the United States treats its Caribbean neighbors, President Joe Biden\u2019s policies aren\u2019t that much better than those of his predecessor, Donald Trump.<\/p>

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Biden, he said, \u201cinherited Trump\u2019s virulent anti\u2011Cuba posture, and an equally hostile attitude to Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the president of Venezuela.\u201d The decision to recognize Juan Guaid\u00f3, then-president of the National Assembly\u2014rather than Maduro\u2014as Venezuela\u2019s head of state, said Sanders, \u201chas continued to haunt US\u2011Caribbean relations, and will be a significant issue as we approach the upcoming Summit of the Americas.\u201d<\/p>

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The CPC-FIU panel, moderated by Georges A. Fauriol, a senior associate at the Washington-based Center for Strategic & International Studies, also included Ambassador Thomas A. Shannon Jr., senior international policy advisor at Arnold & Porter; Jacqueline Charles, Caribbean correspondent for the\u00a0Miami Herald<\/em>; and Samantha S.S. Chaitram, research manager of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.<\/p>\n

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According to Sanders, \u201cTrump\u2019s interest in the rest of the Caribbean nations was only to secure their support for his position on Venezuela, which he calculated was important to securing votes in South Florida among exile communities for his second bid for the presidency.\u201d<\/p>

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The only other Caribbean country Trump showed any interest in was Haiti, said Sanders, \u201cwhichhe reportedly described along with African nations as a shithole country. His officials subsequently denied that report, but the damage had been done. This attitude effectively summed up his administration\u2019s perceptions of the Caribbean.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanders: US \u2018pushing Caribbean into China\u2019s arms\u2019<\/strong><\/p>

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Adding insult to injury, Trump pulled out of the 2015 Paris accord on climate change\u2014an issue that disproportionally affects small Caribbean island nations\u2014and in 2021 withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>

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As if all that weren\u2019t enough, said the ambassador, \u201cin the dying days of his tenure as secretary of state,\u201d Mike Pompeo put Cuba on a list of state sponsors of terrorism\u2014and warned that any Caribbean government that continued to accept medical brigades from Cuba would be regarded as an accessory to human trafficking.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of this had unintended, but not surprising consequences, of pushing those Caribbean countries with diplomatic relations closer to China,\u201d which contributed generously to financing for both adaptation to climate change and to WHO program to help developing countries cope with the pandemic, he said.<\/p>\n

None of this bodes well for the upcoming\u00a09th<\/sup>\u00a0Summit of the Americas<\/a>, scheduled for June 6-10 in Los Angeles. The gathering, coming 28 years after the first such summit in Miami, initiated by then-President Bill Clinton in 1994, is already rife with controversy.<\/p>\n

On April 28, a senior State Department official made it clear that the Biden administration\u00a0does not intend to invite<\/a>\u00a0the leaders of Bolivia, Nicaragua or Venezuela to the gathering. That has led to warnings that the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM)\u00a0will simply boycott the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe threat is not simply that this year\u2019s summit will be a flop\u2014yet another example of feckless US policy toward Latin America,\u201d\u00a0Foreign Policy<\/em>\u00a0warned in a May 4\u00a0article<\/a>. \u201cRather, the real risk is that\u2014after nearly three decades of summitry\u2014this year\u2019s event may be interpreted as a gravestone on US influence in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Biden is well-meaning but generally ineffective when it comes to the Caribbean, said Sanders, writes a regular column in leading Caribbean newspapers and is frequently interviewed by the BBC, the Caribbean News Agency and other media outlets.<\/p>\n

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Ambassador urges Biden to stop neglecting Caribbean<\/strong><\/p>\n

Preoccupied with the pandemic, the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan and, more recently, Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, the current administration has rejoined the climate accord, boosted US support of the WHO and dropped Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe emphasized multilateralism, restoring some confidence in the international system, which Caribbean countries regard as their safeguard against aggression and a platform by which they could raise their voices and be heard,\u201d said Sanders. \u201cBut his administration has failed to elaborate and roll out this specific Caribbean policy. He has certainly not attempted to consult with the Caribbean leadership on what such a policy should look like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even worse, said Sanders, Biden has abandoned his own promise to improve US relations with Cuba. Instead, he charged, \u201cBiden has continued the Trump policy of treating Cuba as a terroristic state, ramping up hostile positions against the Cuban government, including implicating CARICOM in human trafficking if they accept medical brigades from Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanders has represented Antigua & Barbuda as ambassador to the US since 2015. A seasoned diplomat, businessman and academic, Sanders served for separate periods in 2016 and 2021 as president of the Permanent Council of the OAS. He also chaired the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) against drug trafficking and money laundering (2003-04) and served on the executive board of UNESCO (1985-87).<\/p>\n

Sanders was twice Antigua\u2019s high commissioner to the UK. In 2004, he earned the distinction of being the only representative of a small state to lead an arbitration case at the WTO and win. He\u2019s also negotiated tax and investment agreements with the US, Britain, Australia and China.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost from the moment the Biden administration began, it launched a campaign in the Caribbean urging that investment from China be curtailed, and labeling investment and concessionary funding agreements as debt traps and discouraging other connections,\u201d said Sanders, who holds a master\u2019s in international relations from the University of Sussex and is the author of\u00a0Crumbled Small: The Commonwealth Caribbean in World Politics.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Sanders says this makes no sense, because the terms of China\u2019s loans are far more favorable than those of the World Bank or the IMF, and because Beijing does not use per-capita income as a criteria for disqualifying high-income but vulnerable Caribbean countries from eligibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed, CARICOM countries have remained faithful to importing goods and services from the United States, even though US assistance and investment in the sub\u2011region have steadily declined,\u201d the ambassador warned. \u201cIf China comes to dominate the economies of the Western Hemisphere, it will be because of a long period of US neglect.\u201d<\/p>\n

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