A ascensão chinesa e o papel estratégico das relações econômicas China-América Latina

Abstract

China’s rise is probably the world’s greatest economic transformation since the ending years of the 20th century. Such transformation would not have been possible hadn’t a Revolution freed China from foreign domination, abolished large landowning property and established economic planning, which finally made the industrialization of the country possible. This work aims to demonstrate that the recent emergence of China is a result of both the particular form assumed by the capitalist restoration of the country and the economic changes occasioned by the world capitalist crises of the 1970’s, and also that Latin America became strategically important for China as a supplier of commodities, due to the fast pace of Chinese economic growth thereafter. To achieve that aim, a significant portion of the relevant scientific literature was reviewed and data on China-Latin America trade and Chinese direct investments in Latin America was analyzed. The Chinese contribution to global recovery from the 1970’s crisis fostered the “global labor arbitrage” phenomenon and turned the country into the world’s largest producer and exporter of manufactured goods. China’s stock of overseas direct investment is also the third largest of the world. China’s increasing economic and geopolitical projection over the global is generating friction between the country and imperialist powers, especially the US, in spite of Chinese liabilities in the technological and military sphere, among others. Although China cannot be considered an imperialist country tout court, China-Latin America economic relations are an additional cause of the latter’s industrial regression, thus bearing resemblance to “North-South” relations