Panama Severs Diplomatic Ties With Taiwan
Panama has cut its diplomatic relations with Taiwan to establish ties with Beijing in...
Latin America
Oil Deal Lets China Stake Claim in Ecuadorian Amazon
In recent years, as Beijing has been expanding economic ties with Latin America, engagement with...
China’s Global Ambitions, Loans and Strings Attached
At The New York Times, Clifford Krauss and Keith Bradsher look at how China’s global...
China’s Might Driving Plan for Nicaragua Canal
In December 2014, ground broke for the Nicaragua canal project, which is being built by Chinese...
Mystery Surrounds the Nicaragua Canal Project
In 2013, the Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. (HKND Group) was given the green...
PEN Report: Foreign Authors and Chinese Censorship
Free expression and literacy advocacy group PEN America this week released the report...
Amazonian Railway Threatens Environment, Tribes
Premier Li Keqiang is embarking on a visit to several Latin American countries, with plans to...
Nicaragua Announces Start of China-backed Canal
Since a Chinese firm last year won the concession to build, design, and oversee a $40 billion...
CDT Bookshelf: Howard French on China in Africa
The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises...
Nicaraguan Canal Team Quietly Visits China
After Nicaragua’s National Assembly approved plans for a Chinese company to build and...
Nicaragua Approves Chinese-Built Panama Canal Rival
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...
Chinese Firm to Build Panama Canal Rival
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...
Xi Aims to Tread Softly in Latin America
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...
China Sets Sights on S. American Resources
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...
China Loses a Friend in Venezuela
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:...
Colombia Bans Chinese-Made Sombreros
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...
China Launches Second Venezuelan Satellite
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...
China Plays Increasing Role in Venezuela’s Economy
In recent years, much attention has been focused on China’s increasingly influential role in various African countries and the country invests large sums of money in the continent. But China’s investments are...
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