Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Investing in Latin America
Since then Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Latin America in 2001, China has become more engaged in the region. Chinese investment and loans to Latin America have declined in the last few years, but the region remains important to China as a market for goods and a source of essential energy and products.
August 27, 2020
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The U.S. vastly outspends China in Latin America. China’s investments peaked in 2016 at US$16 billion but has declined for three consecutive years.
The U.S. has invested heavily in manufacturing, especially to the transportation and chemical processing industries. While most of China’s investment in the region has gone into raw materials, FDI is flowing into the manufacturing and service sectors.
Since 2005, the China Development Bank and China Export-Import Bank have loaned more than US$137 billion to Latin American and Caribbean countries and state-owned firms. Venezuela has received the most, with 17 loans totaling $US62 billion (US$55 billion going towards energy projects). Brazil is the second largest recipient with US$29 billion in loans (US$26 billion into energy).
In 2019, Mexico jumped past China and Canada to become America's top trading partner, which accounted for US$577 billion of total trade in 2018. China exports much more to Mexico than it imports, including manufacturing parts that end up in the U.S. While Chinese trade with South America remained sparse through the PRC’s first fifty years, by 2010 it had surpassed the U.S. in total trade.
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October 20, 2024
October 20, 2024
Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
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Events
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author David M. Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.