Tag: Americas

China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday called on the United States to revoke its “Illegal and unilateral” sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba. The statement came after the announcement that the Trump administration will designate Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of Suns) as ...

Sunday’s presidential election in Honduras could shift the diplomatic balance between China and Taiwan in Latin America. The two frontrunners in the election have pledged to break diplomatic ties with Beijing and reestablish them with Taiwan. This follows the ...

China is among parties interested in bidding to build two new ports on the Panama Canal, its administrator said Tuesday, despite U.S. talk of retaking control of the vital trade route. U.S. President Donald Trump made the threat earlier this year, ...

Across Latin America, Chinese businesses have long improvised their own forms of protection in the absence of reliable policing: a self-funded protection system sustained through communal pressure, donor lists, and appeals to collective responsibility. A recent series of posts on the Chinese Chile Network, a WeChat public ...

China’s Foreign Ministry has lodged its opposition to plans by the Mexican government to impose a range of tariffs on Chinese imports. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian told reporters on Tuesday that Beijing “firmly opposes moves taken under coercion to impose restrictions on China or hurt China’s legitimate ...

The number of Chinese travelers at Mexico’s Día de Muertos this year was so high that, as one WeChat article noted, “Mandarin has become the second language along the avenue.”  The story, published by Lvjie News, a popular travel-focused WeChat ...

China has given the green light to a major partnership between Chile's state-owned copper giant, Codelco, and lithium company SQM, unlocking plans to ramp up extraction in the Atacama salt flat -- one of the world's top lithium sites. Chile holds ...

A report in the popular nationalist news site Guancha.cn (Observer) draws on a year of field interviews with Chinese managers and entrepreneurs working across Latin America. It explores how firms accustomed to China’s high-speed, KPI-driven culture are adapting to Latin America’s “life-first” ethos, where social trust, ...

Amid the ongoing deterioration of U.S.–Venezuelan relations, one analysis from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Latin American Studies, offers a valuable perspective on how Russia extends its global influence through selective partnerships in Latin America.  By focusing on ...

The United States is making its $40 billion financial rescue package to Argentina dependent on reducing China’s influence across numerous sectors, as well as giving the U.S. special access to key minerals. A report in the Wall Street Journal detailed extensive behind-the-scenes lobbying from U.S. officials, giving a ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has made an unusually public endorsement of a Chinese automaker. On October 9, Lula became the owner of a BYD Song Pro SUV, the company’s 14 millionth new energy vehicle. He also released a ...

Global South countries face increasing financing pressure, endangering their ability to keep developing while also implementing measures to deal with a growing climate crisis. The disruption of global trade is coupled with a larger megatrend: flows of international capital to the developing world have turned negative. This ...