The relationship between China and Latin America. Perspectives from Mercosur

Abstract

Latin America's relations with China have strengthened in recent years, from a new bond between countries that has allowed the emergence of various analyses and projections about its future. The examination of the construction of a new type of dependency on a nascent hegemon that affects Latin America’s commercial, political and cultural patterns a at the national level is of great importance for the development of the region and the ideation of public policies. In this paper, these correlations will be problematized from the literature, from a regional vision linked to Mercosur, to see if these national patterns are repeated at a regional level and how they are represented.