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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.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (centre), who won the run-off election with 51.79 per cent of the vote, compared to 48.21 per cent for far-right senator Flavio Bolsonaro, speaks to supporters in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 25. Photo: EPA
Brazil

Editorial | For China, Lula’s win in Brazil removes uncertainty

China’s response to Brazil’s presidential election result has been wisely restrained given the high stakes involved.

Venezuela

Rubio invokes China, Russia to defend disputed Venezuela oil deal

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Global South

Lula’s win in Brazil deals blow to Trump’s Latin America push: former China envoy

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Mainland China

Win for Lula boosts China’s foothold and gives Brazil rare earths leverage

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 80, has secured an unprecedented fourth term after beating right-wing rival and Trump ally Flavio Bolsonaro.

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Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva waves the national flag as he addresses supporters after his run-off victory, in Sao Paulo on October 26. Photo: Reuters
Brazil

Lula secures surprise win to retain Brazil presidency

Brazil’s 80-year-old leader gets a fourth term after an unprecedented bounce back in the presidential election run-off.

Brazil

Lula pulls off Brazil’s first-ever run-off comeback to beat Bolsonaro

Victory keeps Beijing’s top overseas investment destination aligned with China as conservative rival rejects results.

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Cuba

‘Comrade Raul’: Beijing defends Cuba’s ex-leader over Florida murder warrant

Beijing urges Washington to lift its embargo after US state’s murder warrant over deadly 1996 downing of two Brothers to the Rescue aircraft.

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Former Cuban president Raul Castro is accused by the United States of being involved in the February 1996 shooting down of two unarmed US civilian aircraft. Photo: EPA
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

Migration officials flagged 41 people in Tegucigalpa and at SFECO Group’s Choluteca site, while city hall threatens closures.

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Taiwan

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

Gustavo Villate, blacklisted alongside Belize’s foreign minister, suggests the move was retaliation for excluding Huawei and ZTE from 5G.

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Paraguay’s technology minister Gustavo Villate speaks during a legislative hearing in Asuncion on June 26, 2025. Photo: EFE
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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Aerial view of new BYD cars at the Zarate Port on the Parana River in Zarate, Argentina, in January. Photo: AFP
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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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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Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett (left) and Rebeca Grynspan are the leading candidates to succeed Antonio Guterres on January 1 and become the first woman to serve as UN secretary general. Photo: Wikimedia
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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