Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) relationship with China has passed through many stages in the last few decades. It is only after the 1990s that this relationship has entered a new stage: China has recently become LAC’s second largest trading partner and its second major source of foreign direct investment (FDI). China is also a new critical partner bilaterally, regionally and multilaterally, not only in political terms, but also in education, science and technology, culture and language, among many others.
Current economic relations between LAC and China –including trade and investments—entail at least six areas:
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