As we stated earlier, the signing of this Action Plan does Country Email List not imply obligations for any of the countries, but it is an expression of China's greater presence in the traditional zone of influence of the United States, with a much more attractive and flexible discourse for each of the countries. It is noteworthy that, while Country Email List these diplomatic events are taking place, not only infrastructure and energy projects continue to expand, but also those Country Email List aimed at those minerals considered "critical" for the energy transition -such as lithium and copper-, which exacerbates conflicts ecological-distributive.
In the countries of the region. From the Beijing Consensus Country Email List to an agenda for social movements. Both the China-CELAC Forum and the Belt and Road Initiative appear as ways of Country Email List establishing innovative and disruptive links in relation to those maintained by the region with traditional Western powers. Country Email List Through its position as a trading partner, as a promoter of foreign direct investment or as a financier.
China manages to impose conditions on the countries of the global South Country Email List with modalities that, although different from those applied by Westerners, can also be coercive. This, however, should not make us fall into theoretical conceptions in which some powers are «bad» and others «good». From our point of view, the Country Email List important thing is to stop evaluating the convenience of a type of link with a power taking into account our Country Email List countries as a unit of analysis and looking at the interests of different social classes and actors; the winners and losers. Establishing as a starting point the possibility of the existence of “mutual benefit” links is already fallacious. The relationship with China is of great interest to the dominant sectors of each of the Latin American countries, as shown by the economic groups associated with agribusiness in countries such as Brazil, Argentina or Uruguay, the large regional contractors who enrich themselves with works of large-scale infrastructure and even sectors linked to financial and real estate speculation associated with extractive ventures, as is the case in the large lithium water mining industry.