Alicia Barcena, executive secretary of the U.N.’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, which hosted the event, said China was ‘quickly changing the global economics map ...

The population of China is equivalent to the population of North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and all of Western Europe -- combined.

Between 2005 and 2021, China extended more than $130 billion in loans to Latin American countries for infrastructure projects, often with provisions that contracts go to PRC-associated firms.

Bilateral trade was estimated at $12bn last year, with exports to China valued at $5.7bn, up 58 per cent from 2021, according to the Quito Chamber of Commerce.

With Latin America becoming a partner in China's Belt and Road Initiative, Chilean President Bachelet and Argentine President Macri attended the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing in May 2017.

China said exports to the U.S. plunged in April, as the Trump administration’s tariff assault forced the world’s second-largest economy to redirect more of its goods to Southeast Asia, Latin ...

For its part, China is pressing forward with its plans to deepen ties with Latin America. At the second Forum of China and Community of Latin American and Caribbean States ministerial held in ...

The Celac ministerial meeting, the first since 2021, will agree a road map to guide relations between Latin America and China at a time when Trump is attempting to reassert US primacy over what ...