What Motivated China’s Covid-19 Assistance in LAC?
Beyond humanitarian motives, China’s pandemic aid has aimed to achieve multiple other objectives.
Margaret Myers
October 12, 2021
Beyond humanitarian motives, China’s pandemic aid has aimed to achieve multiple other objectives.
China’s system of strategic partnerships is an important, if poorly understood, element of China’s broader diplomatic outreach.
Central America is one of Taiwan’s only remaining diplomatic strongholds.
An infographic by Global Times details China’s complex and multi-layered matrix of diplomatic partnerships.
July coverage focused on President Xi Jinping’s tour of Latin America, which included stops in Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, and Cuba.
Highlights of President Xi Jinping’s July 2014 visit to Latin America include a BRICS development bank to a series of bilateral agreements.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s tour of Latin America this summer will be the first Japanese state visit to the region in a decade.
Chinese exports to Latin America grew 12 to 15 percent last year, and could make up for declining demand from developed markets.
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