China’s financing trends in Latam, a conversation with Margaret Myers


This week on Silk & Coffee, Diego and Parsifal chat with Margaret Myers, director of the Asia & Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. Margaret shares her views on the decline of China’s financing to the region, the standardization of China’s lending practices, the post-Covid trends of China’s economic relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean, and of US perceptions on the strengthening of Sino-Latam relations.

Latest publications by Margaret Myers:

Shifting Gears: Chinese Finance in LAC, 2020

Going Local: An Assessment of China’s Administrative-Level Activity in Latin America and the Caribbean

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