China extends visa-free access to Latin American countries

Starting June 1, 2025, nationals from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay will be granted visa-free entry to China. This one-year trial period comes close on the heels of the recent China-Community of Latin American and Caribbean States Joint Action Plan for Cooperation in Key Areas for 2025–2027, outlining broader cooperation in infrastructure and manufacturing. So what does it say about China's evolving priorities in Latin America? Will young people, travelers, business people and scholars from Latin America be more keen to visit and discover the real China? In this edition of The Hub, Wang Guan talked to Jiang Shixue, director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Shanghai University and to Daniel Morales, associate professor at the School of International Studies at Sun Yat-sen University, to discuss how this visa waiver will benefit people-to-people exchanges and promote mutual understanding despite the cultural and geographical distance.