A evolução das relações sino-chilenas na nova geografia do poder mundial (1970 – atualidade)

Abstract

The objective of this text is to understand how Sino-Chilean relations have evolved from 1970 to the present, especially from the 2000s onwards, a period in which the People's Republic of China ceased to be a poor and backward country to become a huge and powerful economic power that controls the production and global circulation of goods. China's repositioning on the geoeconomic and geopolitical chessboard challenges Western capitalist hegemony and alters the geography of world power. This paper relates the increased importance of bilateral relations between the two countries to the enormous global transformations experienced during this period, and to the needs and interests of each of these sociospatial formations. In the end, the possibilities, limits, and contradictions linked to the greater Chinese presence in Chile are debated, in the frameworks of a new model of globalization that seems to take shape at the beginning of the 21st century. To carry out this discussion, data and information from different studies in the areas of geography, history, sociology, international relations, and political economy are used, as well as documents, specialized publications and official reports available in newspapers, and on the web pages of organizations such as the Chilean Customs, the Library of the Chilean National Congress, the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Chinese counterpart, the UN, ECLAC, the World Bank and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade.