Teleconference—China’s Broadening Footprint in Latin America: From Beijing to Buenos Aires
This week Chinese President Xi Jinping begins a trip to four Latin American countries. In Brazil, he will attend a summit meeting of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and meet with leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). Subsequently, he will visit Argentina, Cuba, and Venezuela.
What are China’s economic, political, and strategic interests in the region? And while China is the most important Asian partner for many Latin American countries, how have relations with other Asian countries—India, South Korea, Japan—also broadened considerably?
This is a teleconference to be held by phone, NOT at the Wilson Center.
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Several of the speakers on this call are also contributors to the forthcoming publication "Reaching Across the Pacific: Latin America and Asia in the New Century". Their chapters are available for download below.
Brazil-Asia Trade: Emerging Configurations
Latin American-Asian Trade Flows: No Turning Back
Argentina and Asia: China’s Reemergence, Argentina’s Recovery
Speakers
President, Migration Policy Institute
Research Professor, Boston University; Co-editor, FIXING HAITI : MINUSTAH AND BEYOND.
Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego; Former Senior Director for Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council
Associate Researcher, Center of Latin American Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
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Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
Brazil Institute
The Brazil Institute—the only country-specific policy institution focused on Brazil in Washington—aims to deepen understanding of Brazil’s complex landscape and strengthen relations between Brazilian and US institutions across all sectors. Read more
Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
The Kissinger Institute works to ensure that China policy serves American long-term interests and is founded in understanding of historical and cultural factors in bilateral relations and in accurate assessment of the aspirations of China’s government and people. Read more
Indo-Pacific Program
The Indo-Pacific Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on US interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region. Read more