China: Trade with LatAm up 40 percent last year

Trade between China and Latin America reached a record of more than $140 billion last year, the governor of China’s central bank said Saturday, and pledged to help ease the economic crisis’s impact on the region.

China set to boost Venezuela ties

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping is due in Venezuela as part of a visit to boost Chinese ties in the region.
Mr Xi is expected to sign agreements including joint ventures with Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA, the Venezuelan foreign ministry said.
China is also set to inject $4bn (£2.8bn) into a joint investment fund that was [...]

‘Buy American’ Provision in Stimulus Package Concerns China

China on Monday criticized a clause in the 787-billion-dollar stimulus package passed by the US Senate which requires the use of US goods and warned against trade protectionism.
“We believe that protectionist measures will make a bad situation in the financial crisis even worse,” Trade Ministry spokesman Yao Jian told journalists.
Without naming the US directly, he [...]