Category: South America

By Hector Velasco and Mariëtte Le Roux US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping arrive Thursday in Lima for an Asia-Pacific summit overshadowed by the prospect of a world embroiled in trade wars under Donald Trump.

By Paulina Abramovich Isidora Olave opens a package containing a T-shirt, a skirt, and a handful of glitter stickers shipped to her front door in Santiago, Chile, all the way from China, almost 20,000 kilometers away.

By James EDGAR Chinese leader Xi Jinping headed to Peru on Wednesday, bound for a meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) organization leaders overshadowed by fears of renewed global trade tensions under Donald Trump. Xi ...

Huge cranes loom over Peru's massive new Chinese-funded Chancay port, a symbol of Beijing's growing influence in South America, which is set to be inaugurated by President Xi Jinping on Thursday. "It's nearly ready," Gonzalo Rios, deputy general manager of the ...

By Jorge Heine Amazingly, a subject as obscure as whether a Latin American country would sign on to a particular Chinese international cooperation program made headlines around the world these days. “Brazil becomes the second country after India not to join ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Peru and Brazil next week for meetings of APEC and the G20, Beijing's foreign ministry said Friday. Xi will go to Lima from November 13 to 17 and Rio de Janeiro from November 17 ...

By Thiago P.B. Bessimo In Brazil, foreign policy appears to be a delicate dance these days, with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration striking a careful balance between competing global powers. Lula’s foreign policy advisor, Celso Amorim—often seen as the real ...

By Bruno Binetti Argentine President Javier Milei has had a change of heart regarding China. Although he was highly critical of Beijing during the electoral campaign — famously declaring he would refuse all ties with "Communists" and backing out of joining ...

Peruvian authorities said Monday they had seized about 1.3 U.S. tons of illegally harvested shark fins, a delicacy in some Asian countries that has placed the predatory creatures at grave risk. The discovery was made at the warehouse of an export ...

2024 has been a pivotal year for Brazil-China relations. Last month marked 50 years of diplomatic ties between the two nations, and in celebration of this milestone, President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Brazil by the end of the year. ...

By Alvaro Mendez and Chris Alden Thursday marked the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Brasília and Beijing, which began on 15 August 1974, when Brazil became the tenth country in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to ...

There was a brief moment earlier this year when it looked like the United States was going to succeed in its effort to put some distance between Peru and China. U.S. diplomats had lobbied hard behind the scenes to get the Peruvian government to reassess the ...