The Western Hemisphere is emerging as a central answer to the global concern on how to supply minerals in fast-growing demand while ensuring they generate value-added, sustained development and growth. Latin America and the Caribbean hold a significant share of these resources, creating an opportunity to deepen economic ties between the region and the United States while strengthening regional and global supply chains. Across the region, bilateral cooperation on mining, financing, and supply chain security has accelerated in recent months, with new agreements reshaping the landscape at a pace few anticipated even a year ago. This session will bring together regional heads of state, multilateral finance leadership, and senior US diplomacy to examine what a genuine hemispheric minerals alliance requires: where recent agreements are gaining real traction, where the distance between policy ambition and commercial reality remains wide, and what it will take to build supply chains resilient enough for the demands of the next decade.
Investment and Trade in China
As global businesses navigate an increasingly complex U.S.-China trade relationship, this session brings together investors, executives, and policy experts to examine the current state of investment and trade between the two economies. During a panel and discussion period, hear directly…
