LIMA, Peru (AP) — If things had gone differently last week, U.S. President Joe Biden could have arrived at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Peru on Thursday projecting confidence and pledging his successor’s cooperation with eager Latin American partners. No longer. Just as in 2016, the last time that Peru’s capital Lima hosted APEC,…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Juan Diego Celemín Mojica just explained this well himself, but it was perhaps hidden a little bit under a headline about Colombia and various other details. This point is one that I’ve been waiting for, and we’ve seen the…
President Xi Jinping is expected to inaugurate Chancay port when he visits Peru next week. The Chinese-funded megaport may reshape Pacific trade, but has also made the United States uneasy. In the second of a two-part series, Igor Patrick looks at the implications for the whole of South American continent. Erik Bethel, a former US…
GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 4, 2024 /CNW/ — This is a news report from GDToday: An event aimed at bridging two regions across the Pacific Ocean — Colombia and China’s Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) — was held in Bogotá, Colombia on October 30, focusing on strengthening economic and trade ties. The event, titled China (Guangdong)-Colombia Economic…
China’s export growth surged in October to the fastest in more than two years, extending a months-long run of resilience that helped sustain the economy before a barrage of stimulus measures aimed at shoring up domestic demand. Exports rose 12.7% in dollar terms from a year earlier and imports fell 2.3%, the customs administration said…
For now, Brazil is saying no – but yes. On Monday in Beijing, Celso Amorim, special presidential adviser for international affairs, said the country would not be joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a trillion-dollar transnational infrastructure programme launched a decade ago. Observers say the announcement reflects divisions within the Brazilian administration over the initiative…
Futures for soybeans and soyoil slumped as a lack of fresh Chinese stimulus measures sparked selling across markets. A hotly anticipated briefing by China’s top economic planner following the Golden Week holiday ended without new pledges to boost government spending. That sent a gauge of Chinese stocks tumbling in Hong Kong, with oil and other…
Chancay is typical of the “first civilian, later military” logic of hundreds of Belt and Road projects around the world, according to the Asia Pacific Policy Institute, a US think tank. “It’s an effort to be subtle and discreet while expanding the People’s Liberation Army’s ability to project power overseas,” Danny Russel, the institute’s vice…