Mexico’s energy reform and oil-hungry China
By Wenyuan Wu Under the legal framework of Mexico’s new Hydrocarbons Law, state oil firm Pemex’s tasks of transferring entitlements and reaching joint venture partnerships with other oil companies...
View ArticleChina steers clear of Venezuela-US dispute
By Wenyuan Wu Two days after the Obama Administration declared Venezuela a national security threat, China’s Foreign Ministry publicly reinstated its unwillingness to be dragged into the US-Venezuela...
View ArticleChina: Updgrading and diversifying its investments in Latin America
By Wenyuan Wu More Chinese companies have been given green light to invest and operate in Latin America, seeking the vast potential of the region’s markets. Last month, Chinese telecom equipment...
View ArticleKeep looking at China, but also take a look back at the US: Dean of Wharton...
by David Ramirez Wharton dean’s views on Asia, the US and Latin America The cooling of the Chinese economy may be driving Latin American firms to rethink the value of expanding in that country....
View ArticleChina-Latin America trade 2014: Key suppliers falter, but others soar
By David Ramirez Replicating the trend of recent years, China’s trade with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) rose moderately in 2014, by just 0.6 percent, to $258.6 billion. This growth rate–the...
View ArticleA decisive month for Nicaragua’s grand canal
May is the deadline for a much awaited environmental study, and time is running out By Wenyuan Wu May 2015 is a decisive month for the Nicaragua Canal project financed by Chinese billionaire Wang Jing....
View ArticleLatin American corporates eye up trade opportunities with China
How is the China-Latin America trade corridor likely to develop and what are the challenges likely to arise for local banks and their corporate clients? With emerging markets playing an increasingly...
View ArticleKorea-Latin America Trade: Mexico rises as top trading partner
By David Ramirez Trade flows between Korea and Latin America fell 3 percent in 2014, to $48.9 billion, according to LT’s Korea-Latin America Trade Rankings. The trend is the consequence of a 4 percent...
View ArticleJapan-Latin America Trade Index 2015
By David Ramirez Albeit the recovery of Japanese GDP growth last year, the economic slowdown in Latin America and the decline in world commodity prices caused bilateral trade flows to plunge 14...
View ArticleMoody’s: Trans-Pacific Partnership deal is especially credit positive for...
Singapore, October 12, 2015 — The recent pact on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is credit positive for all 12 participating sovereigns, but especially for those in Asia, Moody’s...
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China’s New Approach in Latin America and the Caribbean
By Margaret Myers, director of the China and Latin America Program at the Washington, D.C. think tank The Inter-American Dialogue Myers, one of the world’s most respected voices on Latin America-Asia...
View ArticleVale’s High-Quality Iron Ore Meets a Need for China: CEO
( Caixin).- Murilo Ferreira also backs the government’s plans for making changes at steel mills, saying some plants need to be modernized By Wang Shuo, Lu Xiaoyi and Huang Kaixi (Beijing) – Vale SA,...
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China: Connecting the Americas?
By Margaret Myers, director of the China and Latin America Program at the Washington, D.C. think tank The Inter-American Dialogue Whether in Asia, through One Belt One Road (OBOR), or in Latin America,...
View ArticleChina-Latin America Trade Index: Small countries stand out
Trade between China and Latin America reached a total of $231 billion during 2015, 10 percent lower than the year before, according to Latin Trade’s most recent ranking. But some of the smallest...
View ArticleMaking Sense of China’s Slow Growth Trajectory
(Caixin) Against the backdrop of a slumping economy, the party-run People’s Daily newspaper has once again sought answers from an unnamed “authority.” A “person in authority” told the paper in an...
View ArticleKorea-Latin America Trade Index: Venezuela climbs five spots
Total trade between South Korea and Latin America reached $42.27 billion last year, a 13.6 percent drop compared with 2014, according to Latin Trade’s latest Korea-Latin America Trade Index. In terms...
View ArticleChina’s 2016 Trade Agenda: A Primer
By Margaret Myers In its most recent Five-Year Plan, released in March 2016, China articulates a series of trade and overseas investment initiatives to help it maintain GDP growth of around 6.5 to 7...
View ArticleThe disconnect: Goodbye to the back yard
Interview with World Bank Chief Economist for Latin America Augusto de la Torre By Elida Bustos Changing, changing, everything’s changing. It’s not only wars that change maps and spheres of political...
View ArticleMercosur and the Pacific Alliance: Whither the Relationship?
Cynthia J. Arnson Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars On July 30, Mercosur’s Council of Ministers—its most important governing body other than the...
View ArticleCan China Make New Friends in Latin America?
By Margaret Myers, director of the China and Latin America Program at the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue China’s relations with Latin America are evolving somewhat as a result of the region’s...
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