China

The myth of best practices and the Chinese model

China’s model challenges the Western institutional recipe and shows how adaptation and improvisation can drive development.

Copper, Lithium, and scholarships: Beijing’s quiet strategy in the region

China’s influence in Latin America goes beyond raw materials: it also extends, in less visible ways, to universities and scholarship programs.

Washing one’s hands by blaming China

The West blames China for its industrial weaknesses, but it would do better to learn from China’s investment, planning, and long-term policies—lessons far more valuable than trade wars and anti-China rhetoric.

Cooperation for repression? The case of China in Central America

The study of Chinese influence in Latin America has undoubtedly focused on the economic and trade relations between the Asian giant and the countries...

The dragon’s speed: When today’s haste becomes tomorrow’s mortgage

The urgency to carry out large-scale projects without rigorous oversight opens the door to costly decisions that compromise long-term development and sovereignty.

A family state at the service of Beijing

The democratic collapse of Nicaragua has created the ideal conditions for China to consolidate a model of cooperation based on political control, trade dependence, and resource extraction.