Day: February 22, 2021

2020: A Point of Inflection in the China-Latin America Relationship?

By Rebecca Ray, Zara C. Albright, and Kehan Wang 2020 was a possible inflection point in the economic relationship between Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and China. According to joint research from Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center and the Inter-American Dialogue, last year, for the first time since 2006, China didn’t offer any […]

China-Latin America Economic Bulletin, 2021

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was hit hard in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic downturn. With one of the highest mortality rates in the world, the region also saw the worst economic slowdown of any global region, contracting by over seven percent last year. In this context, LAC’s relationship with […]