China's growing presence in the Caribbean

The presence of China in the Caribbean" is the title of a study conducted as part of a partnership between the Institute of the Americas (IdA in French) and the French Development Agency (AFD in French). Published in February 2015, it examined a possible Chinese breakthrough in an area historically under the influence of Europe and the United States.

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" llUsing figures and statistics from the last ten years in particular, the study examined China's role and weight in the Caribbean. "It is estimated that the amount of loans from China to the Caribbean region amounted to 740 million USD annually since 2010," noted the study. The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), for their part, have granted, respectively, during the last five years, loans totaling 400 million and about 1.3 billion USD. "In 2013, imports [Haitian] from the Asian giant totaled 100 million USD," said the s

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