Xu Shicheng, a Chinese Expert in Latin America: “Any Ruler, Whether Left or Right, Will Have to Develop His Trade and Diplomatic Relations with China”

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Xu Shicheng has strong ties with Chile. The prominent Chinese expert in Latin America recalls that several friends of his traveled to the country to study and met with Salvador Allende before he became president. Furthermore, he notes that the first time he visited Santiago, in 1989, he spent a month in Flacso (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences). “At that time there were many research centers from which several ministers came,” he points…