About the Book

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Foreword ix
5. 1 China and Latin America: A New Era of an Old Exchange 1
6. Part 1 Grand Strategies and Local Responses
7. 2 The China–Latin America Relationship: Convergences and Divergences 23
8. 3 Ten Key Questions 51
9. 4 Economic Fundamentals of the Relationship 67
10. 5 China’s Challenge to Latin American Development 91
11. 6 The Obama Administration, Latin America, and the Middle Kingdom 103
12. 7 Conflicting US Perceptions of China’s Inroads in Latin America 117
13. Part 2 Country Studies
14. 8 China and Mexico: Trade, Migration, and Guanxi 139
15. 9 China’s Relations with Mexico and Chile: Boom for Whom? 159
16. 10 China and Cuba: Past, Present, and Future 187
17. 11 China’s Relations with Central America and the Caribbean States: Reshaping the Region 203
18. 12 China and Venezuela: Oil, Technology, and Socialism 221
19. 13 China and Brazil: Two Trajectories of a “Strategic Partnership” 235
20. 14 China and Argentina: Beyond the Quest for Natural Resources 257
21. Part 3 Conclusion
22. 15 China, Latin America, and the Trajectory of Change 281
23. Bibliography 289
24. The Contributors 305
25. Index 309
26. About the Book 325