Kissinger Institute

.@jorgeheinel: "China is the largest trading partner for Brazil, Chile and Peru, and second largest for many others...So when I hear the argument for Latin America to reconsider the relationship with China, even if countries wanted to, they wouldn't be able to"

According to @jorgeheinel , 25% of agricultural imports to #China come from countries within the Southern Cone (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay).

.@IIEPGW's Maggie X Chen: "Overall, #China's outward direct investment goes to developed countries, but it is increasing investment in developing countries as well." Adds that non-#BeltandRoad countries make up majority of overall outflows

Maggie Chen: "There is a significant and positive synergy between general investment and infrastructural activity," finds that a 10% increase in construction contracts corresponds with uptick in FDI activity #BeltandRoad #China

Chen argues that entry into markets "can facilitate economic growth", but adds that FDI needs to be supplemented with institutional reforms improving business environments, or infrastructure reforms

.@LATAMProg Fellow Stephen Kaplan discusses finance of Chinese FDI, contextualizing #LatAm interests in "remnants of austerity" in the aftermath of past recessions. Chinese financing "lacks policy conditionality," providing alternative creditor options.

Kaplan finds that long maturity structure and high risk tolerance characterize #China's "Patient Capital." "Policy bank investors are willing to stay with markets in good and bad times, and even enter markets in bad times."

Chinese loans to #LatAM are tied to "Chinese firms, products and machinery," or "Commercial conditionality." Kaplans suggests that local content by LatAM supplies is up for negotiation