Over the weekend, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who is on a tour of Asia that ends tomorrow, met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in southern China.
Pena Nieto’s trip is part of an effort to develop closer bilateral ties between Mexico and China, after more than a decade of what the Financial Times has called “reciprocal coolness.”
The trip “was predicated on the idea of engaging China in order that Chinese investors see Mexico as an optimal export platform into North America," Francisco Gonzalez, associate professor and Riordan Roett chair in Latin American Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, told Trend Lines in an email interview.