URL: https://www.thedialogue.org/map_list/
A really great website I found is The Dialogue, specifically it’s China-Latin America Finance Database. This website basically tracks China’s loan commitment to Latin America. What I really appreciate about this site is that it caters to our students who are visual learners and I feel that it provides a great opportunity to teach our students how to read infographics because it has a ton of them. For example, the data base allows you to access rankings on which country in Latin America China has invested the most to the least. It also breaks down how the loan money is invested and what entities has loaned the money. It also provides a timeline how much money China has been lent since 2005. This website seems pretty easy to use and I really appreciate that it presents a lot of information in a very simple manner. The layout of the website seems easy for high school students to use. The curricular opportunities for this data base are plentiful. For example, students can analyze what countries China is choosing to invest in and students can infer reason why China might invest more in one country and not others. The timeline of loans also shows a rising trajectory, and I feel that provides evidence and dialogue on China’s rising power and influence in the world.
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