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China, the EU and Latin America : current issues and future cooperation
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TrilateralRelationsbetweenChina theEUandLatinAmerica:LittleExperience ButBigPotential 07 biregionalformsofcooperation andtheyhaveproventheirinterestinshaping theworld.Recently political economicandfinancialrelationsbetweenChina andtheLatinAmericanCountries LAC havebeenconsiderablyreinforced. Theoutreachofallthreebeyondtheirimmediateneighbourhoodandthe advancesinSouthSouthrelationsandcooperation beiteconomicorpolitical arepromising basesfor moretrilateralcooperation.Valuableexperiencecan comefrom outreachprogrammesofthe OECD DAC the WorldBankand regionaldevelopmentbanks orevenfromtheEUorcountryinitiatives suchas thoseoftheUKandGermany.Dialogueonprogrammeorientedapproachesin thedonorcommunityshouldpreparetheterrainforconcretetrilateralprojects. Accordingtothe United NationsConferenceon Tradeand Development UNCTAD2008 2009 ), SouthSouthFDIhasreached12percentofglobal FDI andthecorrespondingfigurefortradeis20percent.As UNCTAD Secretary GeneralSupachaiPanitchpakdipointedoutinhisspeechinearly February2009totheExpertMeetingonInternationalCooperation SouthSouth Cooperation and Regional Integration: SouthSouth cooperation holds significantpotentialforincreasedtradeandinvestmentflows therebysupporting industrializationandstrengtheningtheservicessector.Inrecentyears the renewedinterestamongdevelopingcountriesinmutualcooperationhasledtoan increasingnumberofbilateralandregionalagreementsamongthemintheareas oftrade investmentsandfinance butalsohealth educationandculture. Thistrendhasbeendrivenbythestronggrowthintradeflowsbetween developingcountries.Since1995 SouthSouthtradehasgrownfasterthanany othertradeflows averaging13percentperyear comparedtotheglobal averagegrowthrateof9percent and10percentfortradeamongdeveloped countries.Theamountinvaluetermsisequallyimpressive.Forexample SouthSouthmerchandisetradein2007amountedtoUSD2.4trillion or20per centof worldtrade.The1990salsosaw atakeoffin FDIflowsfrom transnationalcooperation TNC intheSouth withtheshareofSouthSouth FDIintotalflowsgrowingfrom5percentinthe1990sto12percentin2006. But astheSecretary Generalalsounderlined SouthSouthisnotasimple substituteforNorthSouth UNCTAD2009 SincethetraditionalNorthSouthcooperationiscomplementedbygreater SouthSouthcooperation thisopensspacefortrilateralcooperation.Thetrends towardsamultipolarworldanddiversificationofrelationsaretwosidesofthe samecoin. Emerging donorsarebynomeansnewintheaidbusiness:China theArabcountriesandtheEasternblochavebeenactiveoverthepast50years