Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to pay state visits to Argentina and Panama from Dec. 2 to 3, which analysts believe will usher China-Latin America ties into a new era and speed up the pace to build a community with a shared future for China and Latin America.
The upcoming state visit would be Xi’s fourth Latin American trip, and also the first one to the region after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held last October.
China has grown into the second largest trade partner of Latin America, while Latin America has become one of the fastest growing regions for exports to China. Their two-way trade rose 18.8 percent year on year to stand at $257.85 billion in 2017.