China con­ti­nues to play a pi­vo­tal role in both Af­ri­ca and Latin Ame­ri­ca as a trade part­ner, in­vest­ment fa­ci­li­ta­tor and fi­nan­cial backer. China is now Af­ri­ca’s sin­gle big­gest tra­ding part­ner, and Chi­ne­se for­eign di­rect in­vest­ment (FDI) into Latin Ame­ri­ca bet­ween 2010 and 2015 has been esti­ma­ted at a sub­stan­ti­al US$84bn. But China’s slow­down has wea­ke­ned its im­port de­mand growth and con­tri­bu­t­ed to a sharp fall in glo­bal com­mo­di­ty pri­ces. Both Af­ri­ca and Latin Ame­ri­ca, which run large trade de­fi­cits with China as they ex­port most­ly com­mo­di­ties and im­port hig­her value-​added con­su­mer goods, have taken a si­gni­fi­cant eco­no­mic hit. How, then, will China’s re­la­ti­ons­hip with both re­gi­ons evol­ve in the years ahead in view of the in­sta­bi­li­ty and un­cer­tain­ty cau­sed by its eco­no­mic reb­a­lan­cing act? The re­port from The Eco­no­mist In­tel­li­gence Unit as­ses­ses the op­por­tu­nities for deeper re­la­ti­ons bet­ween China, and its Af­ri­can and Latin Ame­ri­can part­ners. LINK