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The 21st Century opened a new chapter for the relations between China and Latin America.As of 2020, Brazil has received more than half of all Chinese investment in Latin America—around USD 66 billion with three fourths of that investment dedicated to the energy sector and the rest going to agriculture, infrastructure and other areas. While Chinese foreign …
The Other Slavery: Chinese Coolies in Latin America Michele C. Dávila Gonçalves, Department of Foreign Languages "Coolie (variously spelled Cooli, Cooly, Kuli, Quli, Koelie etc.) is a historical term for manual …
more detail the intricacies of Chinese investment in Latin America. The article then focuses on Chinese mining investment in Peru specifically to offer a discus- ... with the Shougang …
In Mexico City, at least 328 of 654 electric busses operating in the country are Chinese. Of the largest countries in Latin America, only in Brazil, with local electric bus company Eletra, has the penetration of Chinese electric …
China's energy push into Latin America is fast becoming a multi-pronged approach that also includes the securing of critical minerals, particularly rare earth elements (REEs). The United States ...
The impact of restrictions on Chinese steel could be considerable, given that Chinese shipments to Latin America have displaced imports from Brazil, Mexico, and …
As German international media outlet DW noted, until just a few years ago, Chinese corporations were relatively unknown in Latin America, but their direct investments in the region have averaged about $10 billion per year since 2010, and this has a heavy damaging effect on the environment, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin …
International economic engagement has been increasingly framed in terms of liberal democratic values. Specifically, Chinese aid has been at the center of this debate. Since Chinese aid comes with "no strings attached," a popular narrative is that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid, thus weakening democracy promotion. This study aims to deepen …
China's growing influence in Latin America has been a boon for authoritarian regimes in the region. Although the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has increased its aid and direct investment across the entire region, it has strategically strengthened its ties with the dictatorships currently ruling Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba — countries notorious for their …
Executive Summary Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) constitute a rather important, yet relatively new, area for Chinese interests. Beijing's strategy in dealing with countries that comprise the macro-region …
CHINA AND LATIN AMERICA REPORT Chinese Mining Activity in Latin America: A Review of Recent Findings BY IACOB KOCH-WESER* A comprehensive review of China's global mining …
Chinese investors have become central actors in Latin America yet remain relatively inexperienced in the region's natural resource sectors. Although pilot projects such as the Talara 6/7 oil block and the Marcona iron ore mine undertaken by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and Shougang Corporation, respectively, started in the early 1990s, it …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Chinese financing in Latin America is changing. After becoming a major source of capital flows to Latin America and the Caribbean over the past 15 years, a more diverse range of investors has …
3.1 Chinese Investment in Latin America: An Overview Chinese investment in Latin America and the Caribbean followed trade. The region became an important trade partner to China in the 2000s, exporting commodities such as soy, iron ore, cooper, oil, meat and wood. By the end of the decade, Chinese firms started to invest in Latin America,
Despite the apparent strengthening of China–LAC relations, illustrated by growing economic and political trends such as the increase in trade and investments and the …
A Lithium Triangle alliance. Remarkable gulfs between potential and actual production in Latin America are limited to neither copper nor …
In addition to trade and investment, Chinese loans to the region have also increased from $7 billion in 2012 to $29 billion in 2015. This investment in Latin America often comes in the form of large infrastructure projects aimed at improving transportation and better connecting the region to lower costs for Chinese imports.
"Potosí Mines" published on by Oxford University Press. In 1545 a native Peruvian named Diego Huallpa discovered the richest silver deposit the world has ever known: the Cerro Rico de Potosí, high in the mountains of southern Bolivia. Huallpa had been working for a European overseer at the nearby mines of Porco, the main source of silver for the recently toppled Inca Empire.
In their Inter-American Dialogue report, "The New Banks in Town: Chinese Finance in Latin America," Kevin Gallagher, Amos Irwin, and Katherine Koleski offer the first comprehensive summary of China's lending practices in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The authors provide estimates of the volume, composition, and characteristics of ...
The figures resulting from the Chinese presence in Latin America – even if fragmented and not fully transparent – speak for themselves. Bilateral trade went from usd 14.6 billion in 2001 to usd 450 billion twenty years later. During that period, China invested usd 172 billion in the region, built some 200 infrastructure projects, and ...
Chinese loans to Latin America (up to December 2015) Number of loans Amount (in usd billions) ... modities; from 2000 to 2012 alone, for example, the price of iron ore increased .
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Analyzes corporate social responsibility of Chinese oil companies in Latin America; Adds a political economy analysis to the existing research; Provides a micro-level dimension to the field of China-Latin America research; Part of the book series: Latin American Political Economy (LAPE)
China's investments in Latin America come with social, cultural, and environmental violations, the Collective on Chinese Financing and Investment, Human Rights, and Environment (CICDHA), a network of 50 regional civil …
Chinese lending to the region also has a strong flavour of natural resources. Data are patchy, but according to new figures from the China-Latin America Finance Database, a joint effort between ...
Chinese investments in Latin American lithium have grown significantly in recent years. In January 2022, Chinese company Zijin Mining bought Canadian company Neo …
uncertainty associated with land purchase in Latin America. The work concludes with some thoughts on the way Latin America responds to the Chinese quest for natural resources, which is considered inappropriate for the region's development.2 II. Theoretical and empirical considerations 1. The Chinese pursuit of natural resources
In the 19th century, the first Chinese immigrants arrived in Latin America from economically poor provinces such as Fujian and Guangdong, founding communities in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, …
The first major Chinese mining investment in Peru, Shougang Corporation acquired an iron ore mine in Marcona in 1992. The venture has been widely cited as an example of poor project execution and failed community engagement. ... Chinese lending to Latin America and the Caribbean hit an all-time high of $37 billion in 2010. Aug 9, 2013 &dot ...
A depiction of the Chinese mineral commodity investments and agreement in Latin America between 2017-2022. These investments, part of China's broader effort under its Belt …