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09.12.16China Rethinks Its Alliance With Reeling Venezuela
Wall Street Journal
Concerns prompted emergency meetings between the Chinese envoy and state companies.
The China Africa Project
02.24.16
China/Africa Vs. China/South America
China’s engagement in Africa is often seen by many observers in a vacuum without a broader understanding of how the relationship compares to Beijing’s strategy in other regions of the world. South America, in particular, provides an interesting...
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05.11.15China Tilts Towards Liberal Latin American Economies
Financial Times
China is promoting a Chinese-built, cross-Andes rail link that would allow Brazilian ore and soya to be shipped from Pacific ports in Peru to Asia.
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12.14.14Falling Oil Prices Push Venezuela Deeper Into China’s Orbit
Businessweek
The late Hugo Chávez cozied up to China as part of his drive to curb U.S. influence in the Americas. Maduro, like his predecessor, has relied on Beijing to underwrite Venezuela’s flagging socialist revolution and finance the country’s gaping fiscal...
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03.13.13
Chavez and Bo Xilai Gone: Death of a Political Model?
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s death on March 5, 2013 came in the same week as the “Two Sessions” began in China, when China’s national legislature meets in Beijing. It was also almost exactly a year since the spectacular political demise of Bo...