This book explores the impact of Chinese growth on Latin America since the early 2000s. Roughly twenty years ago, Chinese entrepreneurs headed to the Western Hemisphere in search of profits and commodities, specifically those that China lacked and that some Latin American countries held in...

Mainstream academics and pundits positions China as an imperial nation similar to the British Empire in the 18th century, which scavenged uncharted territories in search of natural resources for capital accumulation. As Latin America countries are recipients of a large portion of China's...