One of the results of the Pink Tide, the wave of left-wing governments that swept Latin America in the 2000s, was to strengthen ties with China and other Global South nations. Donald Trump rightly sees this emerging order as a challenge to US hegemony.

In a recent ministerial gathering of the CELAC-China Forum, several Latin American and Caribbean delegations, most prominently those led by Colombia’s Gustavo Petro, Brazil’s Lula da Silva, and Chile’s Gabriel Boric, convened in Beijing to renew cooperation commitments. This was the forum’s fourth meeting since it launched a decade ago with the aim of accelerating interregional integration between China, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

These relations are far less developed than those between China and other regions and major economies.

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