The axis of oil: China and Venezuela

China is forging new links with Latin America. But the impact of its “south-south strategy” is more complex than the rhetoric of solidarity and progress suggests.

The Chinese are coming. In no part of the world is this more evident than Latin America, where a series of trade agreements, infrastructural investments and bilateral visits over the past two years has begun to reshape the economic landscape. But economics is also politics. China seeks to present its new relationship with Latin America as part of its much-vaunted “peaceful rise”, but how is it seen in Latin America itself — and in the United States?

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