"This book assesses the political, economic and geopolitical consequences that China's presence has initiated throughout Latin America and the Caribbean between 2008-2020. Written by experts across three continents, contributions to this edited volume explore the bilateral relations that China...

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has, from the point of view of the big powers, become an important factor in the balance of power struggle. Political as well as economic reasons seem to suggest closer relations with the People’s Republic of China.

For the first time in its history, Latin America can benefit from not one but three major engines of world growth. Until the 1980s, the United States was the region's major trade partner. In the 1990s, a second growth engine emerged with the European investment boom in Latin America. Now, at the...