The Political Economy of China–Latin America Relations

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A Bibliometric Analysis of China–Latin America Economic and Political Relations

“…A case in point is the AIIB; despite its name, its members are nations from all continents, and its charter establishes that the investment portfolio is not restricted to the Asia Pacific region. Yet to date, only Ecuador has been accepted as a member of the AIIB; the prospective members in the region include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela, but they have missed the requisites and deadlines for full accession (Mendez & Turzi, 2020). There are several issues that have prevented the accession to the AIIB by the remaining prospective members—a slowness to ratify in national congresses; cultural issues; domestic, political, and economic crises; and a “lack of stamina” to implement policy (Urdinez, in press).…”

Dynamics and Prospects for China - Latin America Relations from the Perspective of Latin American Scholars

“…However, according to some authors, China represents the greatest current challenge for Latin America. Such a position is expressed, for example, by Oviedo (2012a;2012b;, Guelar (2013), Sevares (2015), Bernal-Meza (2016a;2016b;2016c;2019b), Mourón, Urdinez and Schenoni (2016), Urdinez, Mourón, Schenoni and Oliveira (2016), Vadell and Ramos (2019), Bernal-Meza and Li Xing (2020), Méndez and Turzi (2020). These authors agree that the structure of economic relations, characterized by a core-periphery model (exchange of primary products for manufactured goods) does not favor the Latin American economic development.…”

“…In recent years, various studies and research articles of varying quality and analytical depth have been published. Some authors and publications have had an important distribution (Oviedo, 2012a;2012b;da Costa Ferreira & Albuquerque, 2013;Rodríguez Aranda & Shouguo, 2013;Bartesagui, 2015;Bonilla & Milet, 2015;Pini, 2015;Sevares, 2015;Moneta & Cesarín, 2016;Becard, 2017;Pastrana Buelvas & Gehring, 2017;Bernal-Meza & Li Xing, 2020;Méndez & Turzi, 2020;Bernal-Meza, 2021a;2021b;Jaguaribe, 2021;Dussel Peters, 2021). To these should be added other studies produced by Latin American scholars as part of research at ECLAC 2 and research centers, such as the Latin American and Caribbean Academic Network on China, headquartered at the Centre for Sino-Mexican Studies at the Faculty of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (Dussel Peters, 2016) and the Centre for Latin American Studies on China at Andrés Bello University (Chile) (Reyes Matta, 2017).…”

“…Given the importance that China has gained for the region, the bilateral relations are a common agenda of economic and political interest for Latin America (Bernal-Meza & Li Xing, 2020;Méndez & Turzi, 2020). There is no denying that China has become an issue of concern to governments, academics and research centers.…”

Sustainable Banking: The Role of Multilateral Development Banks as Norm Entrepreneurs

“…A new MDB such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has a better chance at norm entrepreneurship by constructing organizational structures, policies and cultures suitable to more sophisticated financing options [117,118]. This is facilitated by absorbing the lessons of MDBs with long private-sector experience; e.g., World Bank, EBRD, CAF [119], and translating them into what is an economic statecraft initiative alternative to the Western paradigm, and incidentally aimed at supporting Beijing in international politics [120].…”