New Zealand media responded well, while British media asked sarcastically, "What does China want from Latin America?" Latin American countries | China | media personnel
"China wants mutual respect, mutual benefit, and win-win outcomes. That's it, that's all." Faced with a bizarre British media report asking "What does China want from Latin America and the Caribbean?" New Zealand media person An Beren tweeted on the 18th, giving this answer.
On the same day, An Bairan forwarded a link to an article published on the website of The Economist on Twitter, titled "What China Wants to Get from Latin America and the Caribbean", which briefly analyzed China's relationship with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The article first mentioned that at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, China had almost no trade relations with Latin American countries. Today, China has surpassed the United States to become the largest trading partner in South America and the second largest trading partner in almost all regions of Latin America. The article claims that the relationship between China and Latin America "seems to be changing", and "in terms of geopolitics, Latin America is becoming increasingly useful to China".
The article continues to highlight reports about China's construction of "surveillance facilities" in Cuba, hyping up China's investment and loan provision to Latin American countries. It also mentions that some Latin American countries settle their trade in RMB and include it in the central bank's reserve currency, as well as Honduras and other countries breaking off diplomatic ties with Taiwan and establishing diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in recent years.
The Cuban side refutes the US media's hype about China's surveillance in Cuba, and the White House also expresses skepticism. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin stated on the 9th of this month that it is well known that spreading rumors and slander is a common tactic of the United States, and arbitrary interference in other countries' domestic affairs is a patent of the United States. The United States is still the world's strongest "hacker empire" and a true "listening power". The United States should reflect on itself and do more to improve US Cuba relations and promote regional peace and stability, rather than the opposite.
As for the rumor of the so-called "debt trap" in China, the spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry also responded in March this year that some people took the opportunity to hype the so-called "debt trap" in China and "loan opacity", and we will never accept it.
The Economist concludes by stating that "China tends to avoid provoking the United States and primarily engages with South America rather than Central America and the Caribbean, but China's growing ambition and the need for cooperation with Latin American countries in mineral resources to advance green transformation may mean that the relationship between the two sides may deepen.".
Regarding the above content, An Bairan wrote on the 18th when forwarding this article, "What does China want from a certain country?" I will now answer this question for The Economist: China wants mutual respect, mutual benefit, and win-win. That's all. I think The Economist can now dismiss all their political analysts.
Regarding cooperation between China and Latin American and Caribbean countries, a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated that China has always adhered to the concepts of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, win-win cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, and has conducted practical cooperation in economic and trade fields with Latin American and Caribbean countries on the basis of respecting each other's needs and interests. The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean announced in June this year in the People's Daily that cooperation between Latin America and China in infrastructure construction has achieved fruitful results. More and more regional countries welcome Chinese enterprises to undertake large-scale infrastructure projects in their own countries. The types of projects involved in the cooperation between the two sides are becoming increasingly diverse, expanding from energy projects to different fields such as telecommunications, transportation, and health. The article also said that the co construction of the "the Belt and Road" initiative and the development strategies of Latin American countries are effectively linked, which has added vitality to the economic development and social progress of the co construction countries, provided support for the economic integration of Latin America and the Caribbean, and has received extensive support from all parties in the region.
