José Luis Machinea and Lucio Castro
David B. H. Denoon (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479899289
- eISBN:
- 9781479811588
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479899289.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
While the relative magnitude and characteristics of its trade links with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are similar to those of the rest of South America, the case of Argentina presents some ...
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While the relative magnitude and characteristics of its trade links with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are similar to those of the rest of South America, the case of Argentina presents some distinctive features. On the one hand, only Venezuela and Brazil received more Chinese financial assistance than Argentina in the last decade in Latin America. On the other hand, Argentina signed more than 30 agreements with the PRC in 2014 and 2015 granting preferential access to strategic sectors of the local economy to Chinese companies in return for soft financing. Contrastingly, the trade and financial links of Argentina with the US, and to a lesser extent with the EU, have significantly waned in the 2000s. We argue these features of the relation with the PRC are primarily the result of Argentina’s trade protectionism and relative isolation from the international capital markets in this period. We analyze whether the “special relationship” with the PRC is a permanent or structural feature of Argentina´s economy in light of the country’s ongoing economic and political changes.Less
While the relative magnitude and characteristics of its trade links with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are similar to those of the rest of South America, the case of Argentina presents some distinctive features. On the one hand, only Venezuela and Brazil received more Chinese financial assistance than Argentina in the last decade in Latin America. On the other hand, Argentina signed more than 30 agreements with the PRC in 2014 and 2015 granting preferential access to strategic sectors of the local economy to Chinese companies in return for soft financing. Contrastingly, the trade and financial links of Argentina with the US, and to a lesser extent with the EU, have significantly waned in the 2000s. We argue these features of the relation with the PRC are primarily the result of Argentina’s trade protectionism and relative isolation from the international capital markets in this period. We analyze whether the “special relationship” with the PRC is a permanent or structural feature of Argentina´s economy in light of the country’s ongoing economic and political changes.