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Montevideo, March 29th 2026 - 14:49 UTC

Tag: China

  • Thursday, April 25th 2019 - 08:09 UTC

    Closer ties between China and the Development Bank of Latin America

    CAF CEO Ugarte said he thinks BRI has “a clear ambition to create opportunities for the strategic integration between China and Latin America and the Caribbean”

    The head of a top Latin American financial institution believes China's Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, could help inject new dynamism into the world economy, as well as generate new ideas to foster more connectivity between Asia and Latin America. Luis Carranza Ugarte, executive president and CEO of CAF－Development Bank of Latin America－is attending the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing this week.

  • Wednesday, April 24th 2019 - 11:36 UTC

    Argentina trying to sell its soy bumper crop to China

    Argentina has also been pushing to export higher-margin domestically processed soy meal to China, though it has faced resistance from Beijing.

    Argentina is pushing to increase agricultural trade with commodities-hungry China, as farmers on the country’s Pampas grains belt prepare for what is expected to be a bumper soybean harvest over the weeks ahead.

  • Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 08:07 UTC

    African swine fever in China: Brazil expects soy exports to fall but no ceiling for meat sales

    Agriculture minister Tereza Cristina Dias said a Chinese outbreak of African swine fever, threatens yet offers opportunities for Brazil’s agricultural exports

    Brazilian soy exports to China will definitely decline this year as African swine fever in the world’s No. 2 economy cuts demand for the animal feed, but potential growth in meat exports would offset this, Brazil’s agriculture minister said on Monday.

  • Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 08:58 UTC

    China preparing for a huge muscle showing naval parade: 13 countries are joining

    On Tuesday, China will mark 70 years since the founding of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy

    Warships from India, Australia and several other nations arrived in the eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao on Sunday to attend a naval parade, part of a goodwill visit as China extends the hand of friendship despite regional tensions and suspicions.

  • Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 08:31 UTC

    Thomas Cook selling its travel business: Chinese investment fund interested

    Thomas Cook is the world's oldest tour operator and was founded in Market Harborough in 1841 by businessman Thomas Cook

    Travel company Thomas Cook has received approaches for parts of its business and the company as a whole, according to reports. The business put its airline up for sale in February and it said last month it would close 21 stores across the country and cut more than 300 jobs.

  • Sunday, April 21st 2019 - 11:45 UTC

    A Tiananmen Square publicity video triggers the fury of the Beijing government

    The video shows a photographer running from Chinese policemen before taking a picture of the “tank man”, a protester standing in front of a convoy of tanks

    Germany's Leica Camera AG drew criticism on Chinese social media over a video depicting a news photographer covering the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square three decades ago. The five-minute dramatization, released this week, touches on a highly sensitive topic in China.

  • Saturday, April 20th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

    Argentina's think tank CARI underlines the significance of China's Belt and Road forum

    ”I believe China's presence (in Latin America) is very welcomed. We think it would be very interesting to take advantage of the BRI, Eduardo Sadous, said.

    Argentine experts have expressed the belief that the upcoming Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation can yield more concrete steps for collaboration between China and Latin America. Members of the Asian Affairs Committee at Argentina's Council on International Relations (CARI), a leading think tank, spoke to China's government news agency Xinhua in the lead-up to the forum.

  • Saturday, April 20th 2019 - 08:51 UTC

    China's Belt and Road forum becomes the main world event during three days in April

    The strong showing is a testament to the project's standing despite its multiple criticisms, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday.

    Chinese President Xi Jinping will host nearly 40 heads of state next week at the second Belt and Road forum, which is expected to produce more deals for companies and banks that want in on the latter-day Silk Road mega-project. The strong showing is a testament to the project's standing despite its multiple criticisms, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday.

  • Thursday, April 18th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

    China's growth stabilizes 6.4% year-on-year in first quarter

    In the first quarter of 2019, GDP resisted and even grew more than the average forecast of 12 analysts surveyed who expected 6.3%.

    The growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in China stabilized 6.4% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2019, despite falling global demand and the trade war with the United States. The figure was announced on Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (BNS), along with other rather optimistic indicators on the health of the world's second largest economy.

  • Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

    China interested in more Brazilian meat and increasing investment

    Up to 78 Brazilian meat processing plants could be added to the list of those permitted to export to China, according to a person familiar with the matter

    China is planning to allow more Brazilian meat imports following high-level talks set for May, the Chinese ambassador to Brazil said on Monday. Yang Wanming declined to comment on how many meat processing plants could be approved to export to China but said the issue would be discussed when Brazil Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias travels to China in May.