China Gains Ground in Latin America Diplomacy as US Uncertainty Bites

China gains ground in Latin America diplomacy as US uncertainty bites

Beijing’s all carrot, no stick ‘strategic imperative’ drawing US’ southern neighbours closer, experts say.

His extraordinary journey, from the Red Guards to the cinema, symbolizes Bogotá's geopolitical rebalancing towards Beijing. Sergio Cabrera embodies an unusual trajectory. This former director, now Colombia's ambassador to China, has lived several lives: an expatriate child in the Beijing of the 1960s, a Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution, a guerrilla movement in America, and [...] Read more An ex-Guerrillero at the helm of Colombian diplom…

On May 13, the fourth Celac-China Dialogue Meeting took place in Beijing. Although this was a scheduled meeting, a relatively frequent dialogue in Celac’s activities, which have also been held with the European Union for several routine decades, the event was not routine. China’s President Xi JinPing led the Chinese delegation, most of the Latin American and Caribbean delegations were led by their foreign ministers and the new Coordinator of Cel…