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For Chinese companies entering Latin America and the Caribbean, the struggle to establish themselves, win contracts, and initiate projects is only the beginning. Once operating in the region, those companies become local employers, members of the community, and legal entities subject to the actions of the Latin American governments in which they are operating, whether or not they fully recognize and seek to embrace and actively manage those roles.
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Notes
Jiang Shixue “Ten Key Questions,” in China Engages Latin America: Tracing the Trajectory, eds., A. H. Hearn and José Luis León Marquez (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011), 62.
Interview with Enrique Dussel Peters, Head of the Mexico-China Studies Center (CECHIMEX) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), May 22, 2012.
See Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente, “Mapping Chinese Mining Investment in Latin America: Politics or Market?” in From the Great Wall to the New World: China and Latin America in the 21st Century, eds., Julia C. Strauss and Ariel C. Armony (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 40.
See Javier Corrales, “China and Venezuela’s Search for Oil Markets,” in Latin America Facing China: South-South Relations Beyond the Washington Consensus, eds., Alex. E. Fernandez Jilberto and Barbara Hogenboom (New York: Berghahn Books, 2012), 128.
See R. Evan Ellis, “China, S.A. como empresa local en America Latina,” Temas de Reflexión, Centro de Pensamiento Estratégico, Univerisad EAFIT. No. 7 (May 2013).
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Ellis, R.E. (2014). Day-to-Day Management Challenges Faced by Chinese Companies in Latin America. In: China on the Ground in Latin America. The Political Economy of East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137439772_8
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