1、 Monitor of Chinese OFDI in Latin America and the Caribbean 2025 Enrique Dussel Peters1 March 17,2025 The global scenario during 2024-2025 has profoundly affected trade flows,particularly foreign direct investment inflows and outflows,not least in Latin America and the Caribbean(LAC).Coupled with Ru

2、ssias military invasion of Ukraine and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,global FDI flows have been severely affected by the presidential race in the United States during 2024 and by a significant set of executive orders from President Trump since January 20,2025.The deepening conflict between the US

3、 and China is reflected in multiple global arenas.The objective of the Monitor is to examine foreign direct investment(or OFDI)outflows from China to LAC up to 2024,for the period 2000-2024 and various sub-periods.In order to allow for a brief and timely analysis,the paper is divided into two sectio

4、ns.The first one analyzes a group of international factors that in 2024 have had an impact on international flows of inward foreign direct investment(FDI)and OFDI.The second part concentrates on an analysis of the main results of Chinese OFDI in LAC up to 2024,drawing on the Monitors broad and exten

5、sive database(with transaction-level information on the amount,date,employment,company name,country,sector,ownership of the Chinese company,and the geographic origin of Chinese companies,among others).The Monitor has been published annually in Chinese,Spanish and English since 2017 and aims for an a

6、gile reading on the main developments and structures of Chinese OFDI in LAC until 2024;in previous issues you will find specific references and discussions that are not revisited in each of the later issues.We encourage you to make use of the Monitors database to deepen the analysis of Chinese OFDI