In Washington, it’s easy for Antigua and Barbuda to get overlooked, but Prime Minister Gaston Browne has drawn attention as a proxy for China.
“Prime Minister Gaston Browne of tiny Antigua and Barbuda, with a population barely touching 100,000, was the second Caribbean BRI signatory after Suriname. His ambassador to Washington, Ronald Sanders, wrote February 28 in a Caribbean news outlet that the OAS secretary general controversy has nothing to do with China,” according to an academic writing in American Greatness.
“The OAS leadership campaign, Sanders said, “has been tainted by misinformation and political distortion, particularly on social media. A misleading narrative has emerged, falsely framing the election as a geopolitical battle between the United States and China for control of the Organization,” the article says.
“This was nonsense. Browne and his cronies have profited well from BRI. China has targeted CARICOM itself for years as a battlespace against Taiwan. The fight continues to this day, with five CARICOM members—Belize, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines—still recognizing Taipei.”
