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The New Silk Road and Latin America: Will They Ever Meet?
By Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s New
Silk Road stretches over 8,000 miles from China to Europe, traversing
the Eurasian land mass and even touching Africa, but notably excludes
one continent on the other side of the world—Latin America. President
Xi’s landmark initiative, also known as “one belt, one road” that
consists of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime
Silk Road, has become the centerpiece of Beijing’s foreign and trade
policy toward countries along the route. For Latin America, however, the
New Silk Road appears to be merely a catchphrase used by the Chinese
media, not officials, to include the region within Beijing’s overarching
strategy.
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