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With mines, ports, and factories, China is set to dominate Latin America’s electric vehicle industry
The region has some of the largest mineral reserves for this industry, including copper and lithium. Chinese companies also see opportunities in the local vehicle market.
Chinese auto firms follow Tesla to Mexico, and from there to the U.S.
Auto and auto parts makers setting up nearer Elon Musk’s main EV market — North America — must navigate challenges to avoid U.S. barriers.
Amid political turmoil in Peru, China attempts business as normal
China is Peru’s largest trading partner. Within this South American country, Chinese corporations have an opportunity to change public perception about the benefits — and drawbacks — of “Chinese influence.”
Editor’s note for January 4, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn
Ecuador and China sign a free-trade agreement
Ecuador has become the fourth Latin American country to ink a lucrative free-trade agreement with China. But not everybody is happy about Beijing’s growing engagement in the region.
Can China win over Lula’s Brazil again?
China is sending a high-level delegation to attend the inauguration of Brazil’s former President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is known to be an “old friend” in Beijing. But the world has only gotten more tense since Lula’s pro-China policies of the 2000s.
Ecommerce is bursting out of China into Southeast Asia and the Middle East
Chinese cross-border ecommerce and supply chain service companies are expanding into the rest of the world and aiming to lead an ecommerce miracle similar to China’s.
Is China outpacing the U.S. in Latin America?
As Biden faces backlash over the Summit of the Americas this week, China’s ties in Latin America are only growing stronger.
Editor’s note for Friday, December 10, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Xi Jinping wants to “prevent the barbaric growth of capital,” according to a readout from the annual Central Economic Work Conference; Evergrande finally defaults on a bond; the struggles of single mothers; Nicaragua’s switch from Taipei to Beijing; Alibaba is left out of Unigroup deal; central bank raises foreign currency reserve requirements for banks; Hong Kong warns the U.K.’s Sunday Times about inciting election boycotts.
China curtailed loans to Latin America in 2020. Will the U.S. swoop in?
In 2020, loans from Chinese policy banks in Latin America fell to historically low levels. In the last days of the Trump administration, Washington agreed to lend Ecuador $3.5 billion, in what U.S. authorities considered a novel approach to confront China in the region. But does the region stand to benefit?
China’s fishing in South American waters raises questions, fears
Every country with a distant-water fishing (DWF) fleet engages in illegal fishing, but China has the largest DWF fleet in the world. The recent presence of Chinese vessels off the coast of several South American countries has alarmed environmental authorities in the region.
‘Thank God, the vaccine is now available’: China makes inroads abroad with COVID-19 diplomacy
Western countries have begun rollouts of vaccines from firms like Pfizer and Moderna. But from Latin America to Southeast Asia and the Middle East, leaders hope that Chinese companies like Sinovac Biotech and Sinopharm hold the key to curbing COVID-19.
Amid U.S.-China conflict, can Latin America find its way?
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries have found themselves caught in the middle of the U.S.-China trade war, with no unified strategy as to how to move forward.
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China’s new ‘ultra-unreal’ fiction: Only strange art can explain it
“While many authors have turned away from a contemporary China that often seems too implausible and even outrageous to fit within the familiar worlds of socialist realism or magical realism, others have adapted, and out of these a loosely defined genre has evolved, sometimes referred to as ‘ultra-unreal.’”
