WHEN CHINA ARRIVED FROM NOWHERE

Alfredo Toro Hardy

Chapter 9 in Understanding Latin America:A Decoding Guide, 2017, pp 169-197 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: For many years now the influence of the United States in Latin America has been decreasing, as the two have been drifting apart. Meanwhile, since the millennium China has been able to acquire a privileged standing in the region, becoming the main trade partner and lender of many of its countries. This requires some background, especially so because as late as the 1990s China was totally absent from the Latin American scene, while the United States saw this region as its backyard. Let us go back in time to properly frame this situation…

Keywords: Latin America; Asia; Brazil; Hispanic America; United States; Latino Population in the US; China; Spain; Portugal; US-Lantin American Relations; China-Latin American Trade and Investments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789813229952_0009 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789813229952_0009 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789813229952_0009

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().