What is reality and what is rhetoric in the relationship between China and Latin America? In this article, Benedicte Bull examines five common claims.
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Latin-Amerikas ønske om alliansefrihet handler først og fremst om å forbeholde seg retten til ikke å velge side i rivaliseringen mellom USA og Kina.
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