This weekend, Nicaragua and Taiwan butted heads over the terms of their diplomatic divorce. Nicaragua suddenly cut ties with Taipei in favor of Beijing in early December, and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega gave Taiwanese...
Panama has cut its diplomatic relations with Taiwan to establish ties with Beijing in...
In recent years, as Beijing has been expanding economic ties with Latin America, engagement with...
At The New York Times, Clifford Krauss and Keith Bradsher look at how China’s global...
In December 2014, ground broke for the Nicaragua canal project, which is being built by Chinese...
In 2013, the Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. (HKND Group) was given the green...
Free expression and literacy advocacy group PEN America this week released the report...
Premier Li Keqiang is embarking on a visit to several Latin American countries, with plans to...
Since a Chinese firm last year won the concession to build, design, and oversee a $40 billion...
The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises...
After Nicaragua’s National Assembly approved plans for a Chinese company to build and...
Nicaragua’s National Assembly has, as expected, approved plans for a Chinese firm to build and run a new waterway to rival the Panama Canal. From José De Córdoba at The Wall Street Journal: Supporters of the 50-year...
A Chinese company has been awarded a 100-year, $40 billion contract to build and operate a canal across Nicaragua, competing with the nearly 100-year-old Panama Canal. From Jonathan Watts at The Guardian: The president of the...
After his first foreign tour as president in March, a strategically important journey that began in Russia and took him to three African nations, Xi Jinping will begin his second series of overseas visits today in Trinidad and...
As China cements its diplomatic and economic ties to Argentina and Uruguay, the country is looking to secure long-term supplies of natural resources from Latin America. From UPI: Between 2000 and 2005 China represented nearly 40...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying expressed condolences on Wednesday for the death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. From Xinhua, which set up a special feature page on the president’s passing:...
Colombian authorities have stepped in to protect weavers of painstakingly hand-crafted traditional cane sombreros from mass-produced Chinese imports costing a fraction of the price. From The Economist’s Americas View blog...
As China’s influence in South America grows, Chinese and Venezuelan state media report that China has launched a second satellite for Venezuela. This launch comes amid China’s increasing role in Venezuela’s...
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