Mexico.- The 10th North American Leaders Summit generate expectations positive not only in Mexico, United States and Canada, but at a global level, which, according to specialists, positions the region in economic, security and environmental matters.
Meeting
Arturo Santa Cruz, specialist in international relations, considered in an interview for THE DEBATE that the summit has a symbolic message and conveys to the world that North America, as a region, continues to exist.
The foregoing, he said, is key due to the years that were lived with the presidency of Donald Trump in the United States, who had a highly protectionist, anti-Mexican policy and who even questioned the existence of North America as a region.
“The fact that the leaders resume this summit sends the message to the world that North America regionally continues to be and has ambitions for the future,” he said.
For her part, Guadalupe González Chávez, an Iteso academic and foreign policy specialist, added that the meeting stands out for the visit to Mexico, but above all, for the direct relationship between the leaders.
economic block
“Everything that benefits dialogue and cooperation, identifying which issues they do agree on or what they need to work on, will always be positive,” he considered. For the expert, the summit has been highly anticipated throughout the continent and globally, expecting much of the progress that can be achieved.
For his part, the La Salle academic Alejandro Martínez, an internationalist, added that These meetings open the door to negotiations at the highest level.
To Debate He explained that the economy has been key with the transcendent dependence in terms of exports between the three nations.
It is, he said, a very dynamic region where important companies at a commercial level have their origin in North America, and also in a logic of global competition, they face the market of the European Union, China, Asia Pacific, Where are the other economic blocks?
Reform
For Arturo Santa Cruz, also an academic at the University of Guadalajara, in the current situation, the economy is relevant due to the effects of the pandemic and the process of relocating companies to closer and friendlier territories, where Mexico benefits. Another subject, as he added, it is the energy reform in the country and the transitions to clean energy, although at this point he criticized that Mexico has gone in reverse.
“Mexico, in the current government of López Obrador, is practically going back on what it signed in the T-Mec. It harms the environment, but it also directly affects companies that had already invested in this sector,” he commented.
drugs
As reported by the White House, during the bilateral meeting between Mexico and the United States, the presidents evaluated strategies to persecute drug traffickers and close laboratories where it is produced fentanyl. Guadalupe González Chávez, a specialist in international relations and foreign policy, said that the drug issue has always been on the agenda between both countries, particularly since the issue of drug control began on the continent.
The specialist recalled that Mexico was precisely one of the promoters of the matter not being dealt with only at the bilateral level, but that it was addressed from a multilateral and global perspective.
“This is a very interesting moment, because there are other countries, such as Colombia and the rest of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, that have been emphasizing the importance of the problems related to drug control and illicit drug trafficking be fully addressed,” he said. Due to the above, González Chávez considered that Mexico could reiterate the argument that the problem is global and that it requires a comprehensive approach and not only a bilateral one.
Context
Most competitive region?
The meeting between the leaders of the three member countries of the Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC) takes place in a favorable geopolitical context to detonate the competitiveness of the region.
Statistics. According to the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, AC, the T-MEC contributes 28 percent of global GDP and represents an economic bloc 50 percent larger than China and 55 percent larger than the European Union. In addition, the volume of trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada represents 6 percent of all the traditional goods between the countries of the world, that is, this amount represents about half of all that China trades with the world.
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For the organization, North America is more competitive with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the energy crisis in Europe, the zero covid policy in China, as well as the trend towards the regionalization of value chains.
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