Tag: China

• Saturday, March 11th 2023 - 08:05 UTC

  US Southern Command Chief warns of Chinese expansion in South America

  

  General Laura Jane Richardson, the head of the US Southern Command, told the House of Representatives this week that “China continues to expand its influence” in Latin America and “manipulates” its governments through “predatory investment practices.”

• Friday, March 10th 2023 - 10:34 UTC

  Xi Jinping wins unprecedented third term as Chinese President

  

  Xi Jinping has become the longest-serving president of the People's Republic of China since its founding in 1945 after being elected once again for a third five-year term. He was also chosen chairman of the Central Military Commission by a National People's Congress (NPC) plenum.

• Tuesday, March 7th 2023 - 15:06 UTC

  Uruguay-China’s FTA is “improving” at a slower pace, President Lacalle says

  

  The President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, referred to the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China. In an interview with the Argentine radio program “Alguien tiene que decirlo” (Radio Mitre), Lacalle stated that negotiations with Chinese authorities are “progressing”. However, the processes of the Asian country advance at a “slower” pace, the head of the South American Government said.

• Thursday, February 16th 2023 - 20:54 UTC

  Ecuador and Peru fighting a losing battle with China on giant squid fishing in the southeast Pacific

  

  Giant squid, squid or Dosidicus gigas, measures up to 3 meters in length and can reach 50 kilos in weight. It is one of the main species of the southeastern Pacific Ocean and at the same time it is one of the species with the greatest commercial pressure in the world. Thousands of tons are extracted every month, a large part, from the international waters located off the seas of Ecuador, Peru and Chile. The main player behind that voracious appetite is China: it has a declared fleet of 671 ships.

• Monday, February 13th 2023 - 14:41 UTC

  Significant drop in prices China is prepared to pay for beef

  

  China purchased much more beef in January than in the same month of 2022, but paid much less. In effect during most of the second half of 2022, China was prepared to pay up to US$ 6,200a ton of prime beef protein, but since last month it dropped drastically to US$ 4,800 the ton, forcing a renegotiation of volumes and having an impact on the overall industry.

• Thursday, February 9th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Brazil concerned with the concentration of its foreign trade: few products and volumes mostly to China

  

  In the last ten years, up until 2021, Brazilian export to China grew at a greater rate that those to rest of the world. From 2012 to 2021, China’s importance as an export destination for the five regions in which Brazil is divided grew exponentially, and of the 27 federal states, 21 saw their sales to China grow above the expansion of their sales to the world. In the period, however, the export basket was negatively concentrated around a few primary products.

• Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 10:08 UTC

  Beijing admits balloon over Latin America is theirs

  

  As US defense forces are beginning to pick up the debris from the Chinese balloon downed during the weekend by the Air Force on President Joseph Biden's orders, the Asian country admitted a second such aircraft last spotted over Colombia belonged to them. Biden said Monday that the Pentagon was in contact with the Latin American countries through which the Chinese balloon passed. The Colombian Air Force reported that “an object” with “characteristics similar to those of a balloon” was detected and monitored “until it left the airspace.”

• Sunday, February 5th 2023 - 09:16 UTC

  US shoots down Chinese spying balloon on Biden's orders

  

  The United States Air Force Saturday shot down a spying balloon belonging to China while it was flying over territorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean, Washington confirmed. At the time it was shot down, it was reported to be about 18 km above sea level and 11 km off the coast.

• Saturday, February 4th 2023 - 11:50 UTC

  Alleged Chinese “spy” balloon causing further rift between Washington and Beijing

  

  US authorities said they detected a Chinese spy balloon flying over Latin America in addition to the one already spotted over US airspace which has triggered further diplomatic discrepancies between Washington and Beijing.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2023 - 10:59 UTC

  South Africa in naval drills with BRICS associates, Russia and China; Argentina waiting to join the block

  

  South Africa confirmed plans to conduct joint naval drills with BRICS associates navies, Russia and China off its coast this month, from 17/27 February, next to the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24.