LATIN AMERICA: Just how reciprocal is the courtship between Venezuela and China anyway? Pssst...don't tell Hugo, but the Chinese only love him for his oil. By William Ratliff.
This essay was posted online in the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief 6, no. 6, March 15, 2006 (www.jamestown.org/publications). Available from the Hoover Press is Law and Economics in Developing Countries, by Edgardo Buscaglia and William Ratliff. To order, call 800.935.2882 or visit www.hooverpress.org. William Ratliff is a research fellow and curator of the Americas Collection at the Hoover Institution. He is also a research fellow of the Independent Institute. An expert on Latin America, China, and U.S. foreign policy, he has written extensively on how traditional cultures and institutions influence current conditions and on prospects for economic and political development in East/Southeast Asia and Latin America. |
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