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China’s Young Travelers Unexpectedly Flood Mexico’s Día de Muertos

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 ...

Learning the Latin American Way: How Chinese Companies Are Rewriting Their Playbook Overseas

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, ...

Cuba Captures Chinese Fentanyl Kingpin Wanted by Mexico, U.S.

Cuba has arrested a Chinese fentanyl kingpin who escaped from custody in Mexico in July and is also wanted by the United States, Mexican security sources told AFP on Wednesday. The trafficker Zhi Dong Zhang, known by the alias "Brother Wang," ...

Rubio Presses Mexico on Cartels and Fentanyl as China Looms in U.S. Security Push

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio headed Tuesday on his first trip in office to Mexico, which has so far succeeded in navigating treacherous terrain with President Donald Trump who wants tough action on migration and cartels. Rubio is set to ...

Mexico to Review Its Tariffs With China, President Says

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, under U.S. pressure not to allow her country to be a backdoor for Chinese goods, said Thursday that her government would review its tariffs with Beijing. Mexico imports "many products from China" that have hit domestic industries, ...

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The Pain of Un-Polarity

“THE G2 WILL BE CONVENING SHORTLY!”
This post by U.S. President Donald Trump in the run-up to his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week may end up leaving a more lasting mark than the actual summit he attended.

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Donald Trump’s China Contradiction in Latin America

New U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is breaking with tradition to make Latin America the destination for his first overseas trip later this week. Previous Secretaries of State typically prioritized Europe and Asia for their initial visits. That's probably a ...

Mexico Seeks to Cut Chinese Imports Amid Concerns Over Trump’s Tariffs, Says Economy Minister

Mexico appears to be ramping up its efforts to significantly reduce imports from China in a bid to stave off any retaliation from the incoming Trump administration in Washington.  Less than a week after President Claudia Sheinbaum unveiled a plan to curb ...

Q&A: ‘Tariffs Could Kill Chinese Investments in EVs in Mexico’

By Alejandra Cuéllar Since his election victory in November, United States president-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to slap tariffs on the country’s top trade partners, pledging to make this one of his first acts upon taking office on 20 January. 

Move Over Mercedes: Chinese Cars Grab Mexican Market Share

By Yussel Gonzalez The growing popularity of Chinese sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks has shaken up Mexico's luxury car market, hitting sales of traditionally dominant brands such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW. According to industry ...

Mexico Defends Clothing Industry With New Tariffs

Mexico on Thursday announced temporary tariffs on a range of clothing and textile products in an effort to protect its industry and jobs. The measures -- which do not apply to Mexico's free trade partners, including the United States and Canada, ...

Mexico Pivots as Trump Announces Tariffs

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump promised to impose 25% tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico and Canada and an “additional” 10% on Chinese imports as a response to irregular border crossings and drug trafficking. He said the measures would be implemented on “day 1” of his term. ...

Mexico Not a Backdoor for Chinese Products, President Sheinbaum Says

Chinese products are not entering the United States and Canada through Mexico, the president of the Latin American nation said on Friday, and the government will make that clear in upcoming trade meetings. "In the meetings we have with Canada and ...
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