Beijing (Caixin) – China’s plan to create the world’s second-largest steelmaker faces an uphill battle because of its sheer complexity. Yet the government is determined to force steel capacity reductions through additional consolidation, according to ...
By Margaret Myers, director of the China and Latin America Program at the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue China’s relations with Latin America are evolving somewhat as a result of the region’s changing political landscape. Although Chinese firms ...
Cynthia J. Arnson Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars On July 30, Mercosur’s Council of Ministers—its most important governing body other than the presidents themselves—was to have met in Montevideo, Uruguay. ...
Interview with World Bank Chief Economist for Latin America Augusto de la Torre By Elida Bustos Changing, changing, everything’s changing. It’s not only wars that change maps and spheres of political influence; the flow of ...
Total trade between South Korea and Latin America reached $42.27 billion last year, a 13.6 percent drop compared with 2014, according to Latin Trade’s latest Korea-Latin America Trade Index. In terms of percentage growth, Venezuela ...
By Margaret Myers In its most recent Five-Year Plan, released in March 2016, China articulates a series of trade and overseas investment initiatives to help it maintain GDP growth of around 6.5 to 7 percent. China’s ...
(Caixin) Against the backdrop of a slumping economy, the party-run People’s Daily newspaper has once again sought answers from an unnamed “authority.” A “person in authority” told the paper in an interview published May 9 ...
Trade between China and Latin America reached a total of $231 billion during 2015, 10 percent lower than the year before, according to Latin Trade’s most recent ranking. But some of the smallest countries in ...
By Margaret Myers, director of the China and Latin America Program at the Washington, D.C. think tank The Inter-American Dialogue Whether in Asia, through One Belt One Road (OBOR), or in Latin America, Chinese officials ...
( Caixin).- Murilo Ferreira also backs the government’s plans for making changes at steel mills, saying some plants need to be modernized By Wang Shuo, Lu Xiaoyi and Huang Kaixi (Beijing) – Vale SA, the world’s ...