Category: South America
Chile Steel Plant Reopens as Tariffs Imposed on Chinese Imports
Chile's biggest steel plant has resumed activities after the government imposed a temporary tariff on Chinese imports. The Huachipato plant, which provides 2,700 direct jobs and some 20,000 indirect ones, announced a month ago it was winding down, unable to compete ...
Chinese Embassy Denounces U.S. General’s Remarks on Chinese Space Exploration Station in Argentina
The Chinese Embassy in Argentina strongly condemned a U.S. general’s remarks on a Chinese space exploration station in the country. Following Javier Milei's election as president of Argentina in December, the Chinese-built space exploration station in the Andes Mountains has become ...
Ecuador’s New Free Trade Pact With China Provokes Lots of Excitement and Even More Questions
By Chris Alden and Alvaro Mendez The ongoing political crisis in Ecuador, which saw President Guillermo Lasso dissolve the National Assembly and trigger an election, came against the backdrop of the signing of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China. This ...
Lula’s Victory Expected to Boost China-Brazil Ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping was quick to send his congratulations on Monday to Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on his re-election as president of Brazil. The Foreign Ministry in Beijing was equally enthusiastic about Lula's return to power, with spokesman Zhao Lijian telling reporters that China ...
Undercutting the Amazon? Deregulation in the Wake of South America’s Chinese Investment Boom
By Rebecca Ray As Brazilians head to the polls at the end of this month for a presidential runoff between current President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, one of the many issues on the table is ...
New Perspectives on China’s Engagement in the Americas
By Margaret Myers, The Inter-American Dialogue’s Asia and Latin America Program looks forward to partnering with The China Global South Project to share key insights from our analysis on China’s evolving relationship with the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. For over ...
Is South America Becoming China's "New Africa?"
At first glance, China's engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) looks a lot like what it's doing in Africa. Just as China surpassed Europe as Africa's largest trading partner, China has similarly overtaken the U.S. as LAC's largest export market. While China's ...
China/Africa vs. China/South America
China's engagement in Africa is often seen by many observers in a vacuum without a broader understanding of how the relationship compares to Beijing's strategy in other regions of the world. South America, in particular, provides an interesting contrast for how China's engagement is ...