Book Review: China on the Ground in Latin America

Author: R. Evan Ellis Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan- 320 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Books on China and Latin America are rare, especially on economic relations between that emergent superpower and that diverse continent, a neighbor of the largest economy in the world, the United States, with different cultures, languages, and races. It may surprise most readers to know that China’s nominal gross domestic product was, according to the International Monetary Fund in 2013, larger than the total GDP of the 12 countries that comprise the South American continent. China’s GDP was $9.181 trillion, compared to South America’s total...

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