Mexican companies are increasingly using RMB as the currency of choice in their transactions.
In 2016, 15% of the transactions between Chinese companies and Mexican ones have been made in Yuan, compared to 5% last year.
The main reason for the use of RMB is to avoid the currency-related risk of the triangulation between the Mexican Peso, the US Dollar, and the Yuan.
... See MoreU.S. aluminum executives claim Liu Zhongtian, founder of Chinese metals conglomerate China Zhongwang, used a factory in Mexico to game the global trade system
http://www.wsj.com/…/chinese-billionaire-linked-to-giant-al…
Did you know the only direct flight between Latin America and China is the flight between Tijuana and Shanghai?
Join us on 10 November to discuss the socioeconomic and policy challenges of the relation between Mexico and China.
Our special guest will be Prof. Enrique Dussel Peters, from UNAM.
The event will be chaired by Dr. Álvaro Méndez, co-founder of the Global South Unit.
...This public lecture is part of our Latin America and China Programme
We are excited to announce this public lecture, with Isabel Hilton and Jin Jiaman from the Beijing based Global Environmental Institute, speaking about the pote...ntial role of civil society in partnerships between Latin America and China.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/…/ev…/2016/10/20161026t1830vCLM202.aspx
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Apply for the CAF-LSE fellowship:
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Join our next event:
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
GSU PUBLIC LECTURE: LSE Latin American and China Programme
Sustainable Development or Exploitation: Lessons from China in Latin America
Speakers: Isabel Hilton, writer, broadcaster and founder of China Dialogo; Jin Jiaman, Executive Director of the Beijing-based NGO Global Environmental Institute.
Chair: Dr. Alvaro Mendez, co-founder of LSE Global South Unit; Senior Research Fellow, Department of International Relations, LSE
Venue: CLM.2.02
Time: 18.30-20.00
http://www.lse.ac.uk/…/cen…/globalsouth/Events/GSevents.aspx
Our cofounder, Álvaro Méndez, exhplains how Peru can take advantage of its relation with China
http://diariocorreo.pe/…/gobierno-actual-puede-traer-grand…/
Our director, Prof. Chris Alden, and Ross Harvey discuss the need for a total ban of ivory trade and the implications for elephants of Namibia, Zimbawe and South Africa's recent joint proposal to trade ivory.
http://theconversation.com/african-countries-square-up-for-…
Join us next Thursday 21 July 2016, from 6.30 to 8pm for Professor Cynthia Sanborn's public lecture, chaired by Dr. Álvaro Méndez:
Chinese Investment and Sustainable Development in Latin America: the Peruvian case
The lecture will take place at LSE New Academic Building, room NAB.1.04
Join us tomorrow, Dr Méndez will chair a discussion about sustainable development in Bolivia https://t.co/l5B4PPzpW6 https://t.co/RiTjTJZRGg
Join us tomorrow for our public lecture on development in Bolivia, LSE Thai Theatre NAB @ 6.30PM with Ministers Luis Alberto Arce Catacora and Rene Orellana Halkyer.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/…/06/20160609t1830vTT.aspx
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El grupo chino HNA pone sus ojos en las aerolíneas sudamericanas https://t.co/vFT00mqPN4
Would it be convenient for China to develop soy, corn, sugar cane, palm oil and rice farming in Colombia's Orinoco region? http://bloom.bg/1U5QdE9
