亚洲与拉美的关系:回顾和展望

亚洲与拉美的关系源远流长。有文字记载的亚洲和拉美的早期贸易始于16世纪中期。19～20世纪初,西方列强从中国、朝鲜半岛、印度、印度尼西亚等亚洲国家掳掠和贩卖大批契约劳工到拉美各地。自19世纪中叶起,日本开始向中南美洲移民。二战后,亚洲与拉美国家的关系取得较全面的发展。20世纪50～80年代,日本和韩国与拉美的经济贸易关系迅速发展,成为拉美在亚洲地区的主要贸易伙伴。自中国实行改革开放政策以来,特别在90年代,中拉关系全面发展,中国逐渐取代日本和韩国成为拉美在亚洲的主要贸易伙伴。进入21世纪以来,印度异军突起,同拉美的关系迅速发展。与此同时,亚洲其他国家同拉美的关系也有长足的发展。亚洲与拉美关系的发展势头良好。

Asian-Latin American Relations: Review and Retrospect

The Asian-Latin American relations date back to ancient times and the recorded history starts in the 16th century.They became closer in the 19th century and the early 20th century.At that time a large amount of Asians who were mainly from China,Korea,Japan,India and Indonesia arrived in Latin America as contract workers or economic migrants.After World War Two,their relations met a period of rapid and all-round development.From the 1950s to the 1980s,Japan and South Korea rose to be Latin America's major tr...