Xi Jinping - Southern California

Question

16. In 2023, Xiomara Castro (“syoh-MAH-rah KASS-tro”) met with this world leader as part of beginning diplomatic relations with this leader’s country. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this politician, who for over a decade has served as the President of the People’s Republic of China.

ANSWER: Xi Jinping [or Jinping Xi]

[10h] Xiomara Castro leads this Latin American country, where Castro sought Chinese investment in dams. Activist Berta Cáceres was killed for opposing dams in this country formerly led by the US-jailed Juan Orlando Hernández.

ANSWER: Honduras [or Republic of Honduras or República de Honduras]

[10m] Honduras’s turn towards China and away from the US is complicated because a large proportion of the Honduran economy consists of these payments immigrants send back to the country, often by those living in the US.

ANSWER: remittances

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