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China-Latin America relations

China-Latin America relations
News, features and updates on Beijing's relations with various Latin American nations, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela and more.
Air China has faced flight disruptions on its route to Cuba amid the island’s worsening fuel crisis. Photo: Handout
Cuba

Air China scrambles to fly stranded passengers out of fuel-starved Cuba

Chinese embassy urges passengers stranded by weeks of cancellations on the carrier’s Madrid route to board the flight on Monday night.

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Mainland China

Honduras targets Chinese shops, state builder as president sits on Taiwan pledge

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Taiwan

Paraguay tech minister defies Beijing sanctions, vows to deepen Taiwan ties

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Mainland China

China bought half of Brazil’s oil exports as Iran war drove sales to record

Crude makes up a quarter of Brazilian shipments to Chinese buyers, but growth has slowed since Gulf tankers started sailing again.

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The Port of Acu in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state is a major hub for the country’s crude oil exports. China bought half of Brazil’s exported crude in the first nine months of 2026. Photo: Handout
Peru

Peru governor touts Chinese interest in port pitched as Chancay alternative

Scaled back to US$844 million from a US$7 billion plan, Corio terminal in Arequipa has yet to secure an investor or operator.

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Taiwan

Beijing sanctions Paraguayan and Belizean ministers over support for Taiwan

Belize has signed a diplomatic training deal with Taipei this year, while Paraguay has started a data centre investment project.

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Americas and the Caribbean

Flavio Bolsonaro says he would work with China and US as Brazil’s president

As leader, Bolsonaro would assume control of an economy that is heavily dependent on China – by far Brazil’s largest trading partner.

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Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro attends a meeting with elected governors, ahead of the run-off election in Brasilia, Brazil on Thursday. Photo: Reuters
Chile

China’s BYD considering lithium battery plant in Argentina, foreign minister says

Pablo Quirno spoke after meeting BYD’s executive vice-president Stella Li, as EV car maker seeks investment opportunities in Argentina.

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Diplomacy

Chinese consortium to build Latin America’s longest cable-stayed bridge

A public-private partnership including two Chinese engineering conglomerates is due to complete the Salvador-Itaparica Bridge by 2031.

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Mainland China

Bogota mayor urges Chinese metro builders to speed up work

Colombia’s comptroller found road works 52 per cent behind on the US$5.75 billion line, due for trial runs in September 2027.

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Bogota’s first metro line is scheduled to open in March 2028. Photo: Handout
Americas and the Caribbean

Brazil-China ties in focus as Bolsonaro gets election edge over Lula

Flavio Bolsonaro won an upset victory in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, setting up a run-off on October 25.

Supporters of Flavio Bolsonaro march with an effigy of US President Donald Trump holding a doll depicting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as a prisoner in Sao Paulo, Brazil, during an Independence Day event on September 7. Photo: AP
Mainland China

Brazil’s Lula hails Chinese investors as rival pitches rare earths to Trump

Brazilian president names China a possible partner in his critical minerals plans, as Flavio Bolsonaro courts Trump, with election looming.

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Macau

Panama auditor targets ex-port regulators, CK Hutchison’s subsidiary in canal probe

Anel Flores says additional material concerns ex-maritime authority board members, executives of Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison’s subsidiary.

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Mainland China

China backs Cuba, Beijing’s Panama threat: 7 Latin America relations reads

From geopolitical alliances to a record-making UN vote, here are highlights from the SCMP’s foreign correspondents in September 2026.

A man eats flour from a bag he found in a pile of rubbish on September 22, as conditions deteriorate in Cuba amid a US-imposed oil blockade. Photo: Reuters
European Union

Brazil’s beef exporters hit a wall in China as 55% tariff kicks in

Surtax on its largest market alarms the industry, which is already locked out of the EU and facing higher US duties.

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A butcher weighs meat at a butcher’s shop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. China is charging an extra 55 per cent tariff on Brazilian beef starting on Thursday, October 1. Photo: AFP
US-China trade war

‘Missed opportunity’: US soybean farmers question China tariff cuts exclusion

Before the Xi-Trump summit last week, analysts and industry experts expected soybeans to be included in tariff-reduced arrangement.

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Cuba

China pledges to ‘firmly support’ Cuba as US escalates pressure on Havana

Spokesman Guo Jiakun marks 66 years of ties amid a US oil blockade and reports of military planning focused on the island.

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Africa

Exclusive | China-based Brics bank set for hunger alliance lead role this year, Brazil says

Brazilian minister Wellington Dias tells SCMP a fund to cut borrowing costs for the poor may launch by December as US marginalises the G20.

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Brazil’s Minister of Social Development, Wellington Dias (centre), speaks at the United Nations General Assembly's high-level plenary session on Social Business, Youth, and Technology on Wednesday. Photo: Handout
United Nations

Exclusive | China set to decide if Costa Rican or Guyanese becomes first woman UN chief

Rebeca Grynspan and Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett lead a split Security Council as Beijing rules out Argentina's Rafael Grossi.

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Taiwan

Paraguay’s president urges UN to let Taiwan in, calls island’s exclusion ‘a stain’

South American leader backs Taiwan’s UN participation and warns of global fallout from a strait conflict.

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United States

Lula backs China peace push at UN, tells US that Brazil is ‘no one’s backyard’

Brazilian leader criticises tariffs and military pressure while demanding domestic benefits from foreign access to critical minerals.

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva addresses the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. Photo: AFP
Brazil

US trade chief pressed Brazil to review Anglo American nickel sale to China

Jamieson Greer asked Brasilia to curb ‘non-market’ buyers of critical minerals in exchange for relief from Trump’s tariffs.

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US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has asked Brazil to review the sale of Anglo American’s nickel mines to a Chinese state-controlled miner in exchange for tariff relief. Photo: AP
United States

Beijing threatens ‘serious consequences’ after Panama lawmakers support Taiwan

Parliamentary exchange group set up despite pressure from China’s embassy and public disavowal by Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino.

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US-China relations

J.D. Vance group courted Brazil opposition candidate for anti-China deal: report

Senator’s logo appears on a plan to trade rare earths and position against Beijing in exchange for support on his presidential bid.

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Peru

China rebuts US’ Marco Rubio over ‘Communist Party-backed projects’ in Peru

Embassy in Lima defends US$30 billion investment stock and takes aim at visa curbs as Fujimori joins Trump’s Shield of the Americas.

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Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Lima on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE
Brazil

Brazil scraps tax on small parcels as Chinese platforms lose US and EU access

Congress cleared the measure days before it expired, handing Shein, Shopee and AliExpress a tariff-free lane into Latin America’s largest economy.

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Brazil has seen a surge in low-value overseas purchases since scrapping a federal tax on small international parcels. Photo: Shutterstock
Mainland China

Nicaragua hands gold concession to sister firm of US-sanctioned Chinese miner

Three months after Washington blacklisted Xinxin Linze Mineria, the Nicaraguan government granted its executives a gold concession.

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Peru

Marco Rubio arrives in Colombia with China ties, trade deals on agenda

Washington’s top diplomat lands in Barranquilla on first leg of three-country tour, with critical minerals, civil nuclear deals to be signed.

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