China-Latin America expert Enrique Dussel Peters (image: UNAM).
Long before it became fashionable, Mexican economist Enrique Dussel Peters began researching China’s trade and investment relationship with Latin America, finding a substantial body of work dating back some 30 years.
Today, new observers are drawn to the subject in part by political elites’ grandiose declarations of South-South partnerships backed by growing trade and huge finance packages. But the media, academics and politicians are encouraged to look at existing analyses of the drivers and actors behind the numbers and, by doing so, avoid costly misunderstandings.
