{"id":4263,"date":"2018-05-04T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T02:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2018-05-29T06:50:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T20:50:47","slug":"sino-latin-american-relations-and-the-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/sino-latin-american-relations-and-the-trump-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Sino-Latin American relations and the Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sino\u2013Latin American relations have experienced an unprecedented growth since 2001, particularly after China joined the World Trade Organisation. Trade\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/repositorio.cepal.org\/bitstream\/handle\/11362\/43214\/1\/S1701249_en.pdf\">jumped<\/a>\u00a0from 12 billion dollars at the beginning of the century to the current 266 billion dollars. Beijing became the region\u2019s second largest trading partner, behind the United States, having signed free-trade agreements with Chile (2005), Peru (2008) and Costa Rica (2010). By 2010, China was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d9dc3d98-57ed-11e1-ae89-00144feabdc0\">lending more money<\/a>\u00a0to the region than the World Bank, the Inter\u2013American Development Bank, and the United States Export-Import Bank combined,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/repositorio.cepal.org\/bitstream\/handle\/11362\/43214\/1\/S1701249_en.pdf\">committing<\/a>\u00a0more than 141 billion dollars in loans between 2005 and 2016. In 2015, Xi Jinping announced China\u2019s plan to double Sino\u2013Latin American trade and investment in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-latam\/chinas-xi-woos-latin-america-with-250-billion-investments-idUSKBN0KH06Q20150108\">next 10 years<\/a>, reaching 500 billion and 250 billion dollars respectively.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No balancing actions against China\u2019s increasing influence were taken. In November 2013, former Secretary of State John Kerry stated\u00a0that the \u201cera of the Monroe Doctrine was over\u201d, in a symbolic but clear expression of Washington\u2019s acknowledgement of the new regional reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This relationship gradually incorporated more than trade. High-rank visits increased significantly, including Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping\u2019s several\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/cnleaders\/201611xjp\/index.htm\">trips to the region<\/a>. Two Chinese White Papers have been released \u2013 in English and Spanish \u2013 explaining China\u2019s policy towards the region. Beijing has also increased its engagement with regional organisations such as the Andean Community, MERCOSUR, and the Organisation of American States (OAS), and established the China \u2013 CELAC forum, which includes the 33 countries in the region, leaving out the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Please click here to read the full\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/iapsdialogue.org\/2018\/04\/30\/sino-latin-american-relations-and-the-trump-administration\/\">Sino-Latin American relations and the Trump administration<\/a>&#8221; article at the IAPS Dialogue, written by\u00a0Diego Leiva, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sino\u2013Latin American relations have experienced an unprecedented growth since 2001, particularly after China joined the World Trade Organisation. 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