The China-Latin America Axis

Gaston Fornes holds a joint position at the Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Bristol, UK, and ESIC Business School, Spain. He is recipient of the Liupan Mountain Friendship Award from the Ningxia Government in China, the Foreign Expert Award from the Shanghai Government, and the London School of Economics' Latin American Development Bank Fellowship. He has published widely on management in emerging countries; his research has been featured in mass media like Fortune, the BBC, El Pais, and Cinco Dias. Álvaro Mendez is Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, UK, and Research Associate at the University of Bristol, UK. At LSE, he is co-founder of the Global South Unit and a former editor of the Millennium-Journal of International Studies. He is an associate academic at the LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre and an International Advisory Board member of the Observatoire Politique de l'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes (OPALC) at Sciences Po. He is the co-author of UN Security Council Reform and the Challenge of South Representation.

Chapter 1: China and Latin America in the Twenty-First Century.- Chapter 2: Emerging Markets, the Markets of the Future.- Chapter 3: China-Latin America: The Emerging Markets'Axis.- Chapter 4: Rivals and Partners.- Chapter 5: Chinese Dragons Disembarking in Latin America.- Chapter 6: Multilatinas and the China Challenge.- Chapter 7:Conclusions.- Appendix A: China's Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean (FMPRC, 2016).- China's Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean(FMPRC, 2008).- Appendix B: Latibex.- Appendix C: American Depository Receipts (Deutsche Bank, 2011). Appendix D: Chile-China Free Trade Agreement (National Customs Service Gobierno de Chile, 2011). - Appendix E: China and Peru Signed Free Trade Agreement (MOFCOM, 2009b).- Appendix F: China Signs Free Trade Agreement with Costa Rica (People's Daily Online, 2010).