A recent Economist article on Sino-Argentine relations cited commercial loan statistics from the Inter-American Dialogue Asia and Latin America Program’s China-Latin America Commercial Loans Tracker.
COMMENTS FROM THE ECONOMIST:
“In recent decades the economic relationship between Argentina and China has burgeoned. Bilateral trade has increased from US$2.3 billion in 2001 to US$26 billion last year. Several big Chinese investment projects have been announced. More than half of the 62 loans doled out by Chinese commercial banks in Latin America between 2007 and 2021 have gone to Argentina, according to the Inter-American Dialogue, a think-tank in Washington.”
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