Xi Jinping’s latest diplomatic tour began this week in Peru, where he will participate in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima and the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On Thursday, Xi made headlines...
China’s investments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are increasingly moving away from large infrastructure projects backed by massive state lending and towards smaller projects in electric vehicles and high-tech...
Brazil’s new president, Dilma Rousseff, is taking her country’s relationship with China in a new direction, Reuters reports: Only a few months ago, Brazil and China seemed destined to enjoy one of the defining...
In the Washington Post, John Pomfret reports that China’s recent upsurge in investment in Brazil seeks to extend its political – as well as economic – clout: The investments in Brazil reflect China’s...
Mexico is the latest country to offer Mandarin language classes to help its children get a competitive advantage in the business world. From the Los Angeles Times: The sight of youngsters speaking Chinese in the Mexican...
An article in Newsweek looks at the ways China is trying to rewrite the rules of global engagement: It’s easy to forget that big international bodies like the IMF and the World Bank were created by just a few nations, led...
From Foreign Policy in Focus: In early March, a U.S. Embassy official confided to a visiting businessman that he believed that Chinese leaders viewed the United States as a declining superpower whose time had passed and will be forced to share world power with other powerful nations, including China. To demonstrate how China ‘s strategic […]
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