South American Voting Patterns in the UNGA and Economic Dependence on China

Abstract

SINCE 1978 – WHEN THE REFORM AND OPENING UP PROCESS first began – Chinese GDP on constant 2015 prices (US dollars) has grown at an average rate of over 10% each year and as a result China has already overtaken the US as the world’s largest goods trader. 1 This has provided the Asian power with an economic projection reaching every nook and cranny of the world and made several distant countries heavily reliant on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for large sections of their national output.