Diana Valeria Nieto Cruz is an intern at the Stockholm China Center at ISDP. She is currently completing a Master’s degree in Global East Asia at Free University of Berlin. Her master’s thesis focuses on China’s Global South Strategy in the Central American region. Diana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication from the University of Milan, where she focused on studying both China and Japan. Her current research interests are related to China and the Global South and China and International Security.