Since the 21st century China´s socioeconomic presence in Latin America and the Caribbean has increased substantially in all imaginable fields. Based on a group of concepts, the presentation will focus on Chinese infrastructure projects in the region in terms of their number, amount, employment, as well as on their qualitative impact on Latin America and the Caribbean, both internally as well as in their relationship to the US.

Guest Speaker:

Enrique Dussel Peters has a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Notre Dame (1996). Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) since 1993. Coordinator of the Center for Chinese-Mexican Studies (Cechimex) of the School of Economics at UNAM and of the Academic Network of Latin America and the Caribbean on China (Red ALC-China). Member of Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (level 3). Author of chapters and books on political economy, industrial organization, development, processes of segments of global value chains and the socioeconomic Latin America and Caribbean-China relationship in Spanish, German, English, Chinese, and Portuguese. http://dusselpeters.com.