While this article was written prior to President Moreno's December 2018 trip to the PRC (securing a new $900 million loan), you may find this article a useful sector-by-sector analysis of the relationship, with a comparison to China's relationship with Venezuela and Bolivia, as well as discussion of President Moreno's attempt to secure more equitable contract terms for his country.
PDF (18 Pages): 2018 Ellis China Ecuador
Phi Beta Iota: The headquarters of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is in Quito, Ecuador. A clever stratagem by the Chinese would be to offer to create a mulitional Open Source Agency adjacent to UNASUR HQS in Quito, and gradually get a grip on all overt information across Latin America. The US has wasted 30 years during which it could have become an open source superpower for good.
See Also:
- Creating a Post-Western Independent Internet
- Healing the Self & Healing the World: The Open Source Way
- Concept for a Post-Western Economic-Engineering Paradigm: How Putin-Modi and Xi-Trump Can Save Humanity with Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE)
- For UN SecGen – Achieving SDG with OSEE
- D3C Presidential Innovation Memorandum 3.3
- Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) – A Nordic Manifesto
- Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) – Creating the Academy, Economy, Government, and Society of the Future
- Open Source Intelligence Done Right – Lecture to the Royal Danish Defence College
- The Ultimate Hack: Resilient Villages, Smart Cities, Prosperous Nations at Peace — and Unlimited Clean Water
- Marcin Jakubowski: Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) is 10-20% the Cost of Industrial-Era Engineering
