China's Expansion Into the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Latin America and the United States

China's Expansion Into the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Latin America and the United States

Riordan Roett

ISBN 0815775539

Riordan Roett

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2008

With President Hu Jintao's November 2004 visit to Latin America, China signaled to the rest of the world its growing interest in the region. Indeed, this recent encroachment on the United States' backyard has awakened new concerns in U.S. policy circles. On the one hand, this development could challenge U.S. primacy in the Western Hemisphere. On the other hand, some observers view China's courtship of Latin America as a natural step due to China's need for long-term commodities and energy ...