In the last decade, China has transformed in a strategic commercial partner for South America. China is the first or the second largest trade partner for the majority of the economies in the sub-region. However, the trade ...

Observers have expressed concern that Chinese mining companies operating in Latin America are violating labor and environmental standards to a greater extent than other foreign mining companies. Critics point to one ...

Economic relations between China and Latin America differ according to two subregions. Regarding Mexico and Central America there is a meaningful competition, while South America is benefiting from the high demand of ...

Giant firms from emerging economies are increasingly becoming global players. Few studies have seriously analyzed, however, the high level of family control in these giant firms, and its economic significance. The present ...

In March of 2011, China’s National People’s Congress approved the country’s 12th Five-Year Plan, an extensive guide for social and economic planning through the year 2015. Initiated in 1953, China’s five-year plans have ...

This article analyzes Brazil’s economic policy towards China in light of the major influx of Chinese imports and investment into Brazil in the 2000s. In particular, I explore the significance of domestic actors in the ...

Although China began to sign bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in the 1970s, it refused to grant foreign investors the right to sue their host government in international arbitration tribunals. Few realize that China’s ...

The enormous rise in Chinese financial lending to major infrastructure and heavy industry projects has raised concerns regarding the environment. Over the past twenty years, civil society has pushed for the inclusion of ...

The objective of the article has two main goals. On one hand, we want to study US hegemony in the East Asia; how it proceeded there and challenges posed by other international powers. US hegemony in Asia was resolutely ...

Chinese-style FTAs in South America have proved to be unique in three respects: first, due to China’s continued classification as a non-market developing economy at the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Chile-China and ...