El Embajador de Nicaragua se reúne con el Director General del Departamento de Asuntos de América Latina y el Caribe de Cancillería china

Nicaraguan Ambassador meets China’s Latin America-Caribbean Affairs Director

Nicaragua and China reaffirm diplomatic ties through a meeting between Ambassador Cruz and China’s Latin-America-Caribbean Affairs Director.

Meeting between Foreign Minister Wang Yi and the Caribbean

The PRC is willing to work with Caribbean countries to jointly promote peaceful development and work out a plan to strengthen relations going forward.

China announced the new “Disaster Relief Fund for Caribbean countries”

An e-summit was held on Friday, April 29, 2022, where China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced the establishment of a “Disaster Relief Fund for Caribbean countries”. Diplomatic representatives from the following nine nations attended the online meeting: Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados.

The changing phase of China’s lending practices in Latin America and the Caribbean

It is plausible that 2020 marked an inflection point in China’s relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). According to joint research between Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center and the Inter-American Dialogue, last year was the first time, since 2006, that Chinese policy banks did not extend new loans to LAC governments.