The Chinese strategy in Latin America

After the visit in Africa, Chinese President Xi Jinping opens its tour of Latin America, which will precede the meeting with Obama. The weight and especially the political significance of this visit, however, is of a different thickness than that of the black continent, because it takes place in what was once called the backyard of the United States. The value on the international level is crucial, since places, in fact, China on the same floor of the U.S., strategies for diplomatic and economic importance. Trade agreements that will be taken, though of great importance, take a back seat due to the fact that the intention of Beijing to retaliate in Washington this time does not remain on paper, but takes the form of an explicit way. China appeared irritated from the start, when the Obama strategy in international politics has put at the heart of American area of ​​Southeast Asia rightly been regarded as central to the expansion of trade, Beijing has experienced this move as a unwarranted invasion of the field of areas believed, rightly or wrongly, of its influence. Now Xi Jinping enters directly in countries that the United States considered, as rightly or wrongly, to fall under a special relationship with their administration, repeating in the parties reversed what had happened earlier. It is understandable that this aspect of the visit of Chinese President embraces far more important meanings of diplomatic tour in itself. It is a confirmation that the order of the world has changed in a decisive manner and that the bipolar US-China has become the striking feature of international relations. It is a replica of the Cold War that followed the Second World War because the current situation is not the result of an armed conflict, but it is the consequence of an economic conflict that, at the moment it seems endless. The huge Chinese work done on your internal transformation, thanks to endless human resources and large availability of raw materials, combined with the push to the change of the state towards industrialization exacerbated, not mitigated by laws with extensive protection on Civil and Democrats, has created a growth that has made the country the Chinese as an alternative world economic engine in the USA. Until recently, this power was confined to the field of economics, now China shows, through the instrument of trade agreements supported by large cash available, the desire to play an increasingly prominent role in the international arena, both with increasing visibility into the issues and relations between states, and with heavy investments in its military budget. With these premises Xi Jinping traveled to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico, demonstrating a willingness to establish relationships with both small and large states. Commercially in the middle of the visit of Trinidad and Tobago is the extraction of oil and gas, of which Beijing is always frantic search for his food industries. The relations between Costa Rica and China are not recent and Beijing considers of great importance binding to San Jose, as the Central American country was the first in the area to recognize the Republic of China, breaking relations with Taiwan. Mexico is perhaps the greatest affront to the United States: the recently signed cooperation agreements between the two countries are only the last link in a chain much longer, given that China is the country already the Mexican second largest trading partner after the U.S., while Beijing, Mexico City is in second place among the countries of Latin America. The intensification of Chinese investment in this area of ​​the American continent, in the fields of mineral resources and infrastructure has led to a situation where as many as 21 out of 33 nations in the region have stable diplomatic relations with Beijing. These are the premises that will precede the first meeting on 7 and 8 June between Obama and Xi Jinping to seek forms of cooperation between the two states, not just on economics but also on the major issues of international politics, being both permanent members of the Board of UN Security.