Latin America, long neglected by Europe and taken for granted by the US, has found a suitor in China. Resource hungry, highly risk tolerant and non-judgmental about matters of social and public policy, China has become the first or second-largest export market for Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Cuba and Venezuela. Likewise, it has positioned itself as a principal lender to most of the region’s countries (and often the only lender to those otherwise eschewed by international investors, including Argentina, Venezuela and Cuba).
長期以來一直受到歐洲忽視並被美國瞧不起的拉美,在中國找到了追求者。渴求資源、對風險極度容忍而且對社會和公共政策問題不做判斷的中國,已變成巴西、智利、祕魯、烏拉圭、古巴和委內瑞拉的第一大或第二大出口市場。同樣的,中國已變成該地區多數國家的主要貸款人(而且中國經常是那些國際投資者避之不及的國家的唯一貸款人,包括阿根廷、委內瑞拉和古巴)。